skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are also other versions of similar tech like Cevio (https://cevio.jp) which can handle both singing and speech. It can sound a lot more realistic and has the 'gimmick' of making voicebanks for various popular people in Japan. Often the differences in the software generated result compared to the person's voice are down to their tuning preferences rather than technical limitations (on a side note, Cevio uses RNNs while IIRC the original Vocaloids used to concatenate voice clippings and smooth out the transitions using some fourier space tricks, I'm not aware of how modern Vocaloid works but it wouldn't be too surprising if they too use deep learning).

It initially became a thing in Japan because Japanese has fewer phonemes than most mainstream languages, so it was easier to make. Then it gained popularity for the cute characters and the freedom it gave to people who would go on to be music composers. Many popular Japanese composers got their start making and uploading Vocaloid songs on Youtube/NicoNico. On top of that, they have had a series of well designed rhythm games on several platforms for decades now which were pretty popular. These days they have a fairly popular mobile gacha/gambling game too.

Nostalgia is probably also a big driving force since many people grew up with either the music or the games.

These days it's still pretty popular within the anime fanbase outside Japan. Pre-Covid there used to be a vocaloid concert series every year which would alternate between Europe and US tours. The reason it hasn't gone too much more mainstream is likely that English and related languages have thousands of phonemes, so making a good voicebank is significantly harder.
As a general consumer, the slowdown in the erosion of my earning power is welcome news. My gamma hedging hedging costs have never been lower.
Many years ago, my father bought a house and one day when he was talking a neighbour about time and age, and the neighbour told him that he'd had an uncle that had been born in the 1700s...

This isn't as remarkable as it sounds when I say this was in 1960, and the neighbour was 80 something, and his uncle had been born in 1798, and had lived well into his 90s. But is still seems such a large span to be able to reach back.
People have civil discourse in IM/IRC/SMS all the time and none of those media are seen as naturally aggressive.

People in real life don't monologue all that often and most communication is "short form".
No. A bug that can be trivially found is higher likelihood of being exploited, and thus higher impact.
> A triple threat of economic globalization, generational transition, and new technology has flattened the aesthetics of our digital and physical lives. What are the origins of these regressive trends?

Given that things used to be less flat, uniform, and globalized, and now they are more, with no signs of the trend stopping, it would be more accurate to call these trends not regressive, but progressive.
Does this mean that the US was interfering with elections in Japan?
The first time I ever even heard of SBF was when he testified at a Senate hearing as a "billionaire crypto exchange founder." I didn't think much of it, but it was a bit weird - I thought I was pretty familiar with the space and the people in it but apparently not.
But that is exactly the current system we have in the US and UK.

He can divorce and marry you, but that "frees up" his ex-wife to appease the roiling crowd of violent men. I'm being facetious, of course, because who thinks about it like that? No one. We just experience a cultural norm where people only marry one other person. And mostly no one complains.

And yet indirectly this norm has a macro statistical effect of keeping the peace.
I'm a firm believer in better salaries rather than pushing the burden of sustaining an employee directly onto the customer by keeping an air of shame if you don't follow the "accepted tipping guidelines".

Whenever I've been to the USA I feel I'm being scammed every time I'm required to tip. I know it's your culture but it feels like an emotional extortion, if I don't tip I have to bear the weight of an underpaid employee not making ends meet because I don't think it was fair to see a price and then have to mentally add "20%" just because someone served me.

Worse, for me this culture makes me very uncomfortable by the level of service, I can tell when a waiter is miserable and just fake smiling to get me to tip more. When a waitress is over-the-top charming and nice while being berated by the kitchen staff for a misplaced order, etc.

It just makes every service I get feel fake and forced, to the point where I've avoided going to eat somewhere on days I'm exhausted because I don't want to deal with that weight on top.

I'd much rather just pay 20% over the price and know that the staff is well paid.

Tipping culture just opens a can of worm of abuses...
It's complicated, but yes there are a lot of ways to unlock devices some of which include straight up exploiting the device. Keep in mind btw that a lot of the sorts of criminals local LE is going after with these devices are not usually running fully patched iphones or pixels.
No one wants to talk politics in the real world. Now on the internet it's a very different matter.
Are we not, though? Covid hasn't gone away, and it seems to grow every season. Deaths are down, so that is very very good.

That said, I did not take that to mean that restrictions would be the only active component. I don't see any reason to think we can isolate this down to just a single prime mover.
whats a good way to start with a Bogle strategy, as it were? I never heard of this before and I'd like to learn more.

Is this sorta like a Buffett rule thing?
I think the expansion of tipping, to the point where every point-of-sale machine is asking for it, is a dark pattern. I highly doubt that those tips go directly to employees, like restaurant tips would, but almost certainly directly to the shop.

I'm cynical but I see these new places where tipping has showed up as a way shopowners backhandedly raise prices and depress employee wages. And given that there is basically no human interaction, not even eye contact involved in the transaction, I'm not doing it.
Back then 12% was a standard tip and $1 was reasonable for a single person's meal. Simpler times...
Show HN: FAQify – Algolia for FAQs using GPT-3
Hey HN! My name is Fatih and I’d like to share FAQify - a project I’ve been working on this week. FAQify is a tool that answers questions about Amazon products using GPT-3. Simply paste the link to an Amazon product and ask your question! The app will generate a good answer based on the textual data on the product webpage.

The current version of FAQify is a simple POC, but I hope to expand it to be something like Algolia for question-answering. The idea is to build a widget that you can integrate with any website. You give it both text on your page but also external data like user manuals. Once it’s trained on these texts, it will be able to help your customers get answers to their questions 10x faster. This can be useful in many domains such as e-commerce websites, code documentations, and blogs.

If you have any feedback or other use cases in mind, feel free to email me at contact@faqify.ai.

Thank you!
Monkey patch like there is no tomorrow (so you do not have to maintain it)!
Weird that gas prices dropped, I would have thought they'd be up. Any insight?
Octopus species just don’t live long enough to develop much intelligence or culture. Most of them only live a year and die after reproducing.
Much of the assets traded on FTX were leveraged sidebets e.g. "perpetuals", the underlying assets didn't exist.
Genuinely surprised to see a +1 for an app that is so riddled with security and geopolitical nastiness. Not to mention how awful this app is for young people's mental health.

>I know there are a lot of naysayers for good and bad reasons but if you are on the fence you should give it a try and it will likely become one of your favorite online spaces to spend time.

Really?
Oh I see, my mistake. Thanks!
I showed up and wrote some software. Should my customers tip me too?

If tipping actually resulted in better service, maybe there'd be a reason to keep it. But, certainly anecdotally, it doesn't. Service in the US hasn't been any better for me than service in nations that don't tip, or tip much less.
> You are inferring that I believe all budgeting is an act of OCD.

I've said nothing of the sort. That's pretty rude to people who actually suffer from OCD.

I don't personally believe checking my net cash flow every few months counts as budgeting but if you do, sure, that's a semantic disagreement.
You literally don’t have to think about it. Just tip 20% every time you’re at a bar or restaurant. That’s it. It’s a way for us to make better money. If that 20% was included and hidden I know you wouldn’t care as much, but it makes it tougher for us to get legally paid as much. Did you even read the article?
Individual experiences considered, the historical and contemporary experience of tipping brings problems on issues of both gender and race. Here is one well referenced article on the matter. https://onlabor.org/the-tipped-subminimum-wage-has-sexist-an...

When employers attempt to shave labor costs by putting out a tip jar, the burden of that decision is not felt evenly across the staff.
It depends on your position. Prestige is not really about morals, it's about selectivity and compensation. If you are in hardware or a designer, Apple is a cut above everyone else. If you are in software, it's probably Google/Meta/Netflix cuts above the rest you listed.
>Stereotypes are never useful,

ironic

>societies adapt to their needs.

we have so far. but there are biological impositions that may not be able to be overcome.

>Our current societies are not going to die because they have decided to cut down on marriages or lots of children.

They may not die, but unless we get robots caring for the elders soon, our continue expectation of population and economic growth is surely _unsustainable_

>We re smart enough to think for ourselves without consulting the books written by the Elders

Are we smart enough to prevent population/economic/ecologic collapse? Unless we are talking test tube babies and society conditioning....anything less than Brave New World simply won't work.

When half of women aged 30 are single and without a child, we didn't even need to damage our DNA a la Children of Men - just our society outpacing the human condition may be enough to ussure in an exponential degradation in quality of life.

men dont have babies. they aren't equal to women. unless that changes, and people accept it quickly, then men and women will continue to have crucial roles in society and the upbringing of the next generation - our continuity.
> I will throw serious money at the first streaming service that implements an 'autotuned' tag, and lets me filter anything tagged with it out of my stream.

Well, I hope you don't like listening to any music made after ~2010, then. Melodyne is completely standard for any modern vocal processing, in all genres of music.
Yes, that's what I mean.

Do you know how to enable it on Mac?

I see that if I set the tabs to be on the left or the right, I get a fake titlebar, but I haven't found an option to get a proper one that matches all the other applications.
Probably because the profit they'd lose by business class travelers downgrading to it would be more than the profit they'd gain by economy class travelers upgrading to it.
Functionally this seems like reinventing RSS.

And I’d say it’s about time.
"is it helpful to think of prices as "going up" ? It seems misleading."

Here you are encountering a common human cognitive failing, which is the belief that there is some sort of objective answer to the question "are prices going up?" that we should all be able to totally agree on, somehow floating in Platonic space without reference to any particular measure of "prices increasing".

The problem is that if you drill down to the question of "what does it mean for prices to be 'going up'?", you must admit to the fact that there are multiple valid definitions of that. It just isn't possible or plausible to create one true definition.

In the presence of that fact, it becomes inevitable that there will be senses in which the price is going up, and senses in which they are not, and senses in which prices are going up more than other senses. That is the reality, which is complicated.

(One propaganda technique is to take one of these numbers, which really exists and is perfectly defensible on its own terms, and then use it in a context in which you know people are generally going to interpret it as one of the other senses of the term. Excitingly, by controlling which "sense" you anchor your listeners to, both "sides" of a debate can push the numbers in whatever direction favors them at the same time.)

According to our nationally-used, generally-accepted metric, if gas is the same price today as it was 365 days ago, inflation is zero. But does that mean the metaphorical person on the street is "lying" if they say prices are generally going up because gas is 20% more expensive than it was three hundred and sixty six days ago? There is a fundamental arbitrariness both to our metrics, and how we all feel about things. I've seen plenty of "How can annual inflation be %8 if my eggs are 2.5x more expensive than this time last year?" posts around lately. The literal answer to that question is obvious, but if someone's expenses involve more eggs than mine, either because their food is a bigger percentage of their home budget or they are a business for whom eggs is a major input cost, they may feel a higher level of inflation than I do, and they're not wrong. They've just got their own inflation metric that disagrees with the national one, but their own metric may well be more relevant to their life than the national one is.
Malicious extension lets attackers control Google Chrome remotely
I had never considered that the DoD might pay for playing the national anthem at NFL games (playing the anthem is a staple of high school games, and I know my school didn't get any DoD funding), and after a quick search it appears that what they pay for is things like flyovers, having service members hold out a large flag on the field, buying them tickets to the game afterward (where they can be seen in uniform in the stands), etc.

It's marketing.

And the number bandied about in the first few links was something like $5.5 million over three years. Not a huge amount of money.
Paying the number a seller asks you to pay and you agree to pay makes sense.
Meanwhile in Italy, you will pay typically €1 for an espresso and €1.50 for a cappuccino. No option to tip. And the drink is ready 10 seconds after the 30 seconds that it takes the machine to extract after you order. No latte art and no waiting 5 minutes after you order only to realize they completely forgot to start making your drink _after you've already tipped them_. Back here in the States you will pay more than $1 in tip alone on top of a $4.50 cappuccino.
>and I don't bet the whole portfolio

this is the catch. you are perpetually in a mental struggle because all it takes is one big bad bet to undo enough of your work that it wasnt worth it. So the options portfolio that you are up 300% on is probably less than 10% of your entire portfolio. Whether it is or isnt under 10% is not actually important, the point is that the stress involved should begin snowballing past that point

not to mention you probably have a decent amount of money liquidated at any given time. for most people it is way for efficient to put the entire portfolio into an index, preferably a tax beneficial account like 401k or roth IRA, and then use all that extra time and energy bettering their workable skillsets so that they can increase their raw income and reduce the odds of unemployment.

That said, when i was unemployed for a year - I did a lot of options/crypto trading because i just had so much time on my hands. Since I've been back at a full time job, it's just too draining for not enough benefit. I can work a few hours of OT and guarantee more money that week than trading would get me, and the OT is way less of a struggle
Scientific American Goes Defensive
Wrong, it is inherently more risky. You are fooling yourself.
Pretty neat, though it does mention a promo code, but when you go to Stripe's checkout there's no option to enter a promo code.
>the status quo of expecting 20+% tip on an already expensive product is not good.

Eliminate the expectation of a 20% tip and prices will basically go up 20% to cover an increase in base pay for the staff. So consumers probably won't actually save money if tipping were eliminated.
Your surplodes of evidence will never sway me and my linguistodes degree
Both, I think. 23 million would be .023% or 100 billion and like .08% of 30 billion
Hey, I might have missed the mark, but it was intended to be tongue and cheek. I don't "like" budgets because they force me to live within my means.

Ignore them, and you can do whatever you like! You do have a point though, I could probably bring the cost down and still manage it... this is what budgets are for.
Fact is, people say this, but when artists actually release music that uses no autotuning, it tends to be less popular. Hardcore fans will say “release your next album without autotuning” but when the album actually comes out, those hardcore fans aren’t supporting it.

It’s very difficult to tell if autotuning is used, if it is used well.
Right, what the author describes is a reduction in consumer surplus.
If "inflation is transient" when is it going back to 2/gal?
Xterm is very broadly compatible with VT220 terminals, with some VT320 and VT420 features thrown in. It is a terminal emulator.

Other TEs, especially libvte-based ones, are more like crappy xterm emulators.

So there are reasons to want xterm, specifically.
KFC 'sorry' for Germany's Reichspogromnacht promotion
There’s a high-end supermarket chain in California called Gelson’s. A guaranteed luxury shopping experience. Prices are 20-25% higher than Ralph’s and 15% higher than Whole Foods. Not worth it for me.
> Maybe it just feels more awkward to non-tippers

And that's the catch.

If I go to a coffee shop and get asked to tip I'm less likely to use that coffee shop in the future. The less coffee shops pay, the more they will need to push tips (or the more the staff will do it anyway) and the more obnoxious the tipping prompts.

Now I'm from a country that doesn't really do tipping, certainly not at any real volume in coffee shops, and I understand that pricing is a strong market force, but I think there's an unrecognised cost in goodwill to asking for tips.

Given the focus on employee wellbeing that we've seen over the last couple of years, I think there's absolutely room in the market for companies that charge more, treat their employees well, and don't push tipping.
It seems the hyperscalers are more in favour of shreding their hardware rather than putting it for sale on ebay. But I'm not sure if this holds true, I have seen old Google servers on /r/homelab.
Why Heinz spent 185,000 hours redesigning this ketchup bottle cap
Splatoon 4 is looking good huh
A lot of the newly popular ideologies start to make sense when you consider:

1. Peer pressure / virtue signalling / peacockery

2. Replacement guilt/shame hitching a ride on the decline of Christian values

3. Disassociation from reality, either due to physical distance (money) or mental distance (tech enabled social bubble)
> They can afford to hold this position, because they already live in safe, often gated communities. And they can afford to hire private security.

I think this represents a fundamental difference in how people perceive "safety" and where it comes from. The author seems to suggest that wealthy individuals feel safe because they have access to additional security measures such as gates or private guards. I've seen this quite commonly in some parts of the world, but my experience in the US is quite the opposite: wealthy communities are so segregated from poverty and, subsequently, crime, that they don't feel the need to put up defenses.
Thanks for this! Perfect timing too!
The poll options are:

1. Police Departments don't need to be reformed

2. Police departments have a problem with race but the problem can be fixed by reforming the current system

3. Police reform hasn't worked. We need to defund police and reinvent our approach to public safety.

I don't like the branding of "defund the police" but I'd still choose 3.

Not because I live in an elite gated community and can afford to collapse society just to show off, but because of the three options it's the closest to my beliefs.

Sending untrained people with guns to deal with mental health and or drug addictions is just stupid.
I find it ironic he is using coffee shop competition to prove his point, when in reality Starbucks did just that - charged higher prices, removed the tip jar, paid employees fairer and with health benefits....the crushed the competition to near oblivion.

Asserting that we need to trick each other to have a fair economy of services is ridiculous.
I don't have tbsync and I don't think any other extension I use added support for that.

Simply select "On the Network" when adding a calendar, set a user name and enter the remote dav location.
For address books use "Add CardDAV Address Book", also username and dav location.
The ironic thing is that I read about that on a blog hosted on medium.com, a website that is one of the reason all the blogs look the same too.
Evolution is working fine with the setup I described, try it out if you need to do this again.
Agreed. I wonder how much of it is intentional; one of the common complaints I see from Synth V users is that none of the voice banks, except maybe Eleanor Forte, have that synthetic, "vocaloid-y" sound. Maybe they know they can't compete on realism, so they're leaning into the signature sound?
Nothing is being overridden.

You have apparently misunderstood copyright licenses as being something that attaches to a copyrighted work and now must be respected by all users of that work. But that is totally incorrect.

Licenses are individual agreements between copyright holders (or licensees who have been granted the right to re-license) and people who want to exercise one of the rights normally withheld under copyright. A LICENSE file is nothing but an offer to grant a license with specified terms to anyone who might want to use the work, without having to nag the licensor to sign an agreement. The existence of that offer doesn't have anything to do with any other agreement the licensor and a (potential) licensee might make.

In the GitHub case, GitHub has negotiated a different license with the uploader. (That negotiation happened to take the form of a ToS, which is another kind of binding offer.) The LICENSE file has nothing to do with it. It hasn't been overridden, it's just irrelevant. It doesn't add or subtract any terms from the separate and distinct license GitHub negotiated.
Nothing about "tipping" makes sense
So you can't create a simple markdown rendered without creating a full-blown html/css renderer. So a cli renderer doesn't make sense either in that case.

Html 'support' is just a hack for any shortcomings of markdown.
The strategy they are describing (selling covered calls) is actually less risky than holding the underlying. They make more than just holding the underlying when it drops or stays flat, and in exchange they make less when the underlying goes up a lot.

Options are just a tool that lets you dial in the amount of risk you want, they can be set up to be more conservative or more risky than the underlying. The latter is what makes the news.
I mean, this is what is happening with the dynamic tipping system and none of these things appear to be happening.
It's a good luck charm.