skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually looked into this a month or so ago, what I was looking for was just reasonable sounding simple tts driven by the cli (so heavyweight things were out, as were most things with a local server, though I looked at some I think).

I ended up going with pico-tts[0]. I remember looking at a few other things and left myself the following comment:

# checked out mimic as well. Didn't seem great, espeak is like nails on a chalkboard
# haven't checked out marytts or larynx or anything, but this is good enough™

[0] https://github.com/Iiridayn/pico-tts
I guess you'll enjoy this one too: https://zeptobars.com/en/read/AD9361-SDR-Analog-Devices-DAC-...
How do women and men do versus AI opponents, i.e. without any gender? Wonder if chess.com has the data?
That there will always be work to be done.

Whether you define it as working on yourself, on your relationships, fixing up the house, the car, washing the dishes.

I guess I sort of lived as if there would be some kind of 'over the rainbow' someday when I could retire and just chill, but this year when watching 'Stutz' on Netflix, where he states that there are three inescapable things in life: "pain, uncertainty, and constant work," the work part really sunk in for me.

I've been watching my mother try to create a kind of peaceful cocoon with her new house and her manicured lawns and list of friends curated down to only the ones which don't ever challenge her etc, only to find that even nearing her eighties she constantly has surprises and challenges intruding on the peace she is trying to cultivate.

The tldr; of it is that I've been looking at work the wrong way, i.e. I've been trying to avoid it or push it away, but I feel I should embrace it. Some recurring tasks can even be sort of comforting in that it creates a routine.
Modern machines are optimized to run C which is in fact essentially "stack based" but registers "cache" parts of the stack (often never touching the stack in leaf procedures).

There were at least two well known machines that tried to mix the stack and registers - Sparc and my personal favorite, the am29000.

Intel was so dominant in manufacturing for so long that the objectively kind of crappy x86 ISA just didn't matter for price/performance (and of course was a plus for running legacy software).
This doesn't answer the question, but I thought it might be relevant to mention here that I've been using chatGPT + resemble.ai to create what I believe is the first kid's stories podcast created entirely by AI.

Here's how it works:

- Kid requests a story about a, b, c on www.makedupstories.com

- chatGPT generates the text for a story, summary, and title

- we send this to resemble.ai (sounds like Tortoise TTS would work just as well), which has a clone of my voice

- the audio file then gets sent to anchor.fm

you can listen to example episodes here on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6liL4T3kJf1scHq134s0mJ

And here on Apple podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kidscast-kids-stories-...
> Learning history / literature in school is important.

Really depends on HOW you learn it IME. If it's just regurgitating dates/names/whatever it isn't helpful at all, at least for me. If you establish that event x led to y because of z, it just clicks and suddenly makes sense.

For example, let's take hitlers rise to power: "He became the chancellor of germany in 1933" That is just about useless. "Hitler rose to power with the help of the nazi party, which was partially formed in response to the treaty of versailles' excessively harsh terms, leading to an extreme amount of inflation and a harsh drop in industry. This set the stage for hitler arguing to use a war as a means of getting rid of the penalties of versailles and bringing germany out from the slump"

For me, in school I was mostly taught the first variation.
Japan has had 0% interest for decades. It doesn't appear that there is actually an interest based time bomb if we entertain the idea of zero or even negative interest rates. It is only a problem when you insist on positive interest because if the exponential nature of compound interest.
I prototyped much of this code using ChatGPT and Copilot. I won't go so far as to say, "I couldn't have done it without you, ma!", but it certainly would have taken me much longer.

In terms of learning the actual API, they were worth their weight in gold.

One trick to use is that Copilot can read up to (apparently) 20 other tabs that you have open. So, I will open the source code containing the API methods I need in my other tabs and close everything else.

> The working code for insertion of the check_invariants statements was a stroke of dumb luck after 15 hours, from one of the suggestions given by Github Copilot.

What is funny here is that it suggested something radically different. I was going down the rabbit hole I chronicled here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74964153/gcc-gimple-c-ap...

One strategy I use in unfamiliar territory is to repeatedly generate the set of 10 Copilot suggestions and see if anything sticks out. I had gone through maybe 3-4 rounds when it spits out one that looks nothing like what I currently have.

I try that suggestion, and it works. I shake my head. What the fuck. Alright, I'll take it.

It wanted to do a regular C-style call that had no member namespace, which by sheer luck happens to work due to how C++ lookup works.
any goon-for-hire can break into your house and hit you until you tell him how to get the bitcoins out

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/security.png
> “useless eaters.”

Unfamiliar term. Turns out it is Nazi political slang.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/useless_eater
You ask a normie "what's your opinion of Windows 10?" and ...

... they'll tell you that they really like their now iPhone.

Most normal people don't know what Windows is. Maybe they'll find the sticker on their Laptop, but that's about it.

But what everyone knows from work is Word and Excel. And as long as they don't work well on a Linux desktop, Linux feels "broken" to them. Similarly, A LOT of people are stuck having to handle PSD and AI files. Good luck getting the Adobe suite running on Linux. But as long as all of their life's creative work is being held hostile in Adobe-proprietary file formats, they surely won't jump ship.
> if the experts can’t secure their accounts, what hope does anyone else have?

This is my opinion of the entire software industry.

Chrome exploits, iPhone hacks, etc. These are nearly trillion dollar companies. If they can't do it then nobody can. Something is fundamentally broken.
I encounter that mode of conversation often.

I would say it is the overwhelming majority of people’s approach. They have a point of view and are emotionally committed to it. They have this commitment almost equally across opinions even if they only arrived at it by first gut reaction moments ago.

They also project this mode onto their conversation partners. For example, if you offer a counter point or drawback to a proposal, they assume you are strongly opposed to the proposal. Rather than discuss the drawback, they will launch into a stream of defenses of the proposal.

I haven’t found any reliable ways to steer people out of this. The most useful adjustment is to expect it and know that most people are just giving you depth on one intuitively appealing solution.

Simply put most people can’t think straight and therefore can’t converse logically either.
Accepting the fact that some people are just arseholes and it is no reflection on me. I used to worry that it was something I had or had not done that made them interact in the way they did.
Now I will initially give them the benefit of the doubt, (bad day, tired, hangover) but if it continues I no longer interact with them and move on. I no longer even consider or think about them.
Your memories of the 5th grade are likely much more recent than mine. As I recall it, showing your work was occasionally necessary for my own edification especially when my final answer was a result of hasty guesswork predicated on faulty assumptions.

Mr Munger making it to a ripe old age and being a wealthy man to boot could literally be shaving years off your life expectancy. But I sense that if you write out all your thinking, step by step, you might find a flaw in that line of reasoning. Even though it is.. simple mathematics. ;)
I assume when the cops show up with a subpoena that they get all of what Google has for the given set of parameters so I think Google's "shadow" location data that they use for traffic and other internal stuff would probably show.
It’s amazing that someday we’ll be able to pass in low fidelity pixel art sprite sheets to an AI and get back high definition hand drawn 2D graphics for use in games.
I learned recently from Alvy Ray Smith's _A Biography of the Pixel_ that Kotelnikov[1] was first to discover sampling theorem before Shannon independently did. And Shannon made it accessible to the West. It's pretty fascinating history.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Kotelnikov
Is the F91W still manufactured in Japan?
irreversible transactions are a feature!
as an example of a context clue, when driving you tend to use the size of a car as a proxy for its distance, instead of stereo vision depth perception. It's fairly common for people to lose acuity in one eye but can still drive for this reason.
That's only looking at the production of a 80 kWh lithium-ion battery

EDIT: also that's a mistaken quote. The article actually says it takes between 6,250 (all hydro) and 40,000 (all coal) miles for an ICE to produce the amount of CO2 that the manufacturing of a battery would produce.

Doesn't at all account for

1. the rest of the damn car

2. emissions due to unclean energy sources

But yes the battery is definitely the most polluting part of making an EV, so that is somewhat promising even though a battery's lifespan tends to last less than an ICE
I think it is a mercy that corrupt despots die of old age. Every tyrant with an iron grip on their society eventually succumbs to the ‘dragon,’ offering a chance for reform and renewal.
> friends in California are like WTF is wrong with the Democratic party in New York

Ha! Hmm. Here:

New York is close to a one-party state. New York City, properly one party. That means the action happens in primaries. Yet in a city of 8.5mm, something like 3mm are registered Democrats [1]. And they don’t vote [2]. So the name of the game is turnout. Not debate. Not oppo. I’m not a power player, and I’ve swung elections by hosting voting parties near public housing polling sites.

We still have a patronage political system. Community boards, which decide matters like local liquor license approvals, are appointed by the Borough President [3]. A partisan position.

New York City is politically inverted: the rich and educated are bluer and more classically progressive. The poor focus quality of life. (This is how Black, poor voters elected a former cop for mayor [4].)

[1] https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2021/02/04/vot...

[2] https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2021/12/01/nyc...

[3] https://www.nyc.gov/site/cau/community-boards/about-commmuni...

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-nyc-mayoral-analysis...
> are you honestly arguing [...]

No, there's nothing like what you assert in my comment. Kindly respond to what I actually say, not the third order implications of what you think I might be trying to insinuate.

> the country’s norms and social mores change over time

THAT is what I said. Things change quick.
Ah. That makes sense!
> From 2009-2016 interest rates were below 0.2% - and wages did not move.

From 2009-2016 the unemployment rate fell from 10% to 4.7%, it is now at 3.5%

> Only employers can create this type of wage spiral

They don't create a wage spiral, they would naturally want to pay people less, they don't wake up one morning and give people raises without a reason.

And the reason is the jobs overhang. When you have twice as many jobs per job seeker then employers are FORCED to pay more just by supply and demand laws.

That only happens though when unemployment is near its lower bound (which we seem to have empirically determined is around 3.5% at least for our economy right now).
You mean any banking scheme where creditors decide when debts are paid.
What are some of the best APIs for historical and live data from stocks?
I'm not so sure....if the monetary penalty is so great that it cancels out the monetary gain from tracking, Google won't do it. It probably would have teeth if unauthorized tracking for any FAANG company was $20 billion dollars.
Are you willing to give some examples? I’m curious in what contexts people feel this way.
He also lost a lot of Bitcoins on the Mt Gox hack b/c he thought it would be safe. He's just one person and I wouldn't draw any big conclusions about it. (One person who has been a massive target for something like this for many years, I would add)
WordPress has a built-in password strength meter which helps users choose strong passwords.
In an attempt to make this a more productive comment, can you elaborate on what is an "honest way" to make a living in a way that is not "environmentally destructive?" I assume the "other people with 8 kids" are not Amish people selling produce at a farmer's market. Someone providing for 8 kids would likely have a car (maybe two), and go to a job in a building that uses electricity, right?

What about your leisure time? Xbox/Playstation? TV? PC/smartphone? Or are you somehow posting your comment via smoke signal or semaphore?
Do you use the Cargo "contracts" for Design-by-Contract style invariants that plugs into Facebook's MIRAI prover thing?

I always thought it this was super neat:

https://crates.io/crates/contracts

https://github.com/facebookexperimental/MIRAI/blob/main/exam...

[dependencies]
mirai-annotations = ...
contracts = {version = "XXX", features = ["mirai_assertions"]}
There's still a strong distinction.

The security story for an individual is:

"I want to avoid my bank details leaking to the dark web. I do not want my browsing history available to random people.

But I do not have anything in particular to hide from Google, so long as the legal situation remains roughly as it is, I won't be arrested for what I say, nor do I really care if some random employee listens to some very boring recordings in my bedroom.

I don't commit crimes anyone would bother prosecuting, I don't have any nudes to leak, at least not that anyone would believe in the deepfake era, I don't pirate or use bitcoin, I don't have controversial political opinions, and if that ever changes, I can just unplug the wiretap and install Tor and Signal.

I currently trust Google more than anything self hosted to defend me against script kiddies, who are the only people I really care about hiding from.
".

The privacy story is:

"I do not want random people knowing anything about me. I do not trust that they won't send a kill drone to my location tomorrow. I am personally uncomfortable with strangers being able to see in my house, even if they are 1000 miles away, paased a background check, and very unlikely to do anything with it.

I do not want my data fed to machine learning for any reason, I do not want adaptive prices and offers that know how much I'm willing to pay, and I'd rather not be exposed to algorithmic manipulation of my emotions at all, even if it's currently mostly pretty obvious.
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It all seems so implausible that boating accident seems true enough
If it's a remote receiver like the Xbox wireless one it'll have to be repaired if you use a different port.
>”Lots of companies doing a shitty thing is not some magical excuse for any given company also doing that shitty thing”

strawman argument. something is widespread and has been widespread but now has spotlight because “tesla” and “musk”. and spotlight on tesla here, not other abusers.

the news media doing this reporting is not to unhide injustice but a focused assault on musk and tesla.

should force critical thinking about why media has turned so hard against tesla or musk. what is it they are afraid of?
I moved to iCloud keychain from LastPass, then changed my most important passwords (financial, social media, major tech accounts, any place with recent credit card info)

If you’re using Apple stuff almost exclusively (safari, iOS, osx) it seems to offer best integration. I have light password sharing needs. It can airdrop passwords to people
In my contacts, but they won’t get password changes.

I made sure to make my device and Apple ID passwords very strong. I’m not sure which it encrypts with. But with FaceID, it’s not a big deal to make a iPhone passcode and actual long pass phrase and not a PIN number.

My main concern is I don’t feel I have a lot of transparency in how it works. And using passwords outside the Apple ecosystem will be difficult.
While I agree with your observation that sports have the ability to unite people, regulating the speech of its athletes seems like the wrong move. It should be on the driver to make a judgement around whether the potential discord and fallout of their statements are worth it.

At the same time, I think there is an interesting problem that does need to be addressed if you're in charge of an F1 team. An F1 team is a massive organization consisting of dozens if not hundreds of people who work to support the driver. Because the driver is the focal point for the team it means that any personal actions by the driver (such as bad behavior or acting in a way that causes outsized controversy) has the potential to jeopardize the entire organization that supports them. If the driver scares away sponsors due to their personal politics it can harm the entire operation and therefore the livelihoods of those people who support the driver.

In this sense the driver has an outsized responsibility to look out for the well-being of their team. In this way the structure appears to be fragile and susceptible to the whims of the drivers. It feels vulnerable, so I also understand why F1 might try to restrict the speech of their drivers.

That said, I don't know a whole lot about F1 teams. If a driver needs to be replaced (say, due to an injury), are F1 teams usually prepared with a second or third-pick driver who can complete the races for the team? Or is it all on the shoulders of the single driver?
How is that news or even relevant?
I saw a cop once try and confiscate someone's phone at a traffic stop and as soon as they touched it they dropped to the ground and started twerking uncontrollably. Sad.
So, a Bitcoin dev and early adopter didn't use an offline or hw wallet all these years? Sounds bizarre

Could this be just tax shenanigans or something similar? I lost my keys in a boat accident kind of thing.
I don't drive but IMO there's a lot of reasons to not want to use gasoline beyond just 'the environment'
Feeling uncomfortable is not what is a barrier. A barrier is an executive sexually harassing you to the point of suicide with no recourse. See: the blizzard fiasco. The riot fiasco. The Google fiasco. The Uber fiasco. Etc…
Washington Irving's "The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon." It's 30 separate pieces -- two of which you've heard of ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van Winkle.") But the larger work is a collection of essays by a travel-loving man, so even those two stories are cast as rural tales he'd heard during his travels. They're surprisingly modern -- funny, witty -- yet also very personal. (Irving wrote them in England while dearly missing his homeland of America.)

Another interesting book if you're living in California: Two Years Before the Mast. Basically a blog kept by a sailor on a ship in the 1830s -- except he was an educated man who just took the job for his health, so his writing and observations are really succinct and vivid.
I am not a fan of anonymous functions. I think they are evocative of maths culture tendency to remove and make meaningless names(for example, using greek letters). Yes I know naming things is hard, but names are important, they are critical labels about the inner inner working of the machine.

Nothing wrong with functional programing, in fact it is pretty great, But I wish people would name their functions.
I regularly attend yoga classes where I am the only man. It doesn’t bother me.
I submit that there would be some initial weeping and gnashing of teeth, but then human ingenuity would kick in and we would muddle through.

Ingenuity >>> Chicken Little
The comparison is between an EV and an ICE vehicle. Surely 1 and 2 favor the EV by definition (no engine, so less material; and <100% fossil fuel usage vs. ==100%[1]), no? Where is the disadvantage you're seeing coming from?

You're also forgetting:

3. Much higher energy efficiency per distance travelled. Even if you have a bunch of oil and are forced to use it to push wheels around on roads with no other energy source, EV's still win on carbon output!

[1] Depending on how you classify ethanol additives, I guess. But regardless, the carbon emissions content of the electricity grid is vastly higher than any agriculturally-source fraction of the gasoline economy.
> Imagine someone tells me a story about some crazy thing they did when they got drunk. As a non-drinker who can’t relate I might not find it that interesting, but would still try to say something positive like, “Wow, sounds crazy.” If they really want validation from the story, they might try to tack on statements to get a bigger reaction. “Yeah, it was wild!” or “My friends couldn’t believe it!”, to which there is no possible response other than a bigger reaction or awkward silence.

> This sort of behavior puts a huge burden on the listener because it makes them responsible for your emotional state. Their options are to deny you the emotional state you want, or to give it to you by lying.

What? This seems so off-base that it makes me question the rest of the advice in this guide. Sharing a story that you're passionate about isn't an immediate conversation killer. Nor does it "put a burden on the listener" to be responsible for your emotional state. Goodness! If there's an awkward silence, it's because the other person is politely inviting you to share another related story. A perfectly fine response to the above is "Oh yeah, that reminds me of the time when I [similarly crazy story]." Or, if you have no similarly crazy stories, share a story related in some other way.

> Ask Questions

While I'm soliloquizing, here's another thought. A lot of people say "ask questions" as a way to improve conversations, but miss a key bit of context. The real advice is: "Ask questions about what you're curious about." For the best conversation, you want to guide them to a place where you're both interested enough in the topic at hand that it basically runs on autopilot - where all the advice in this guide becomes meaningless because you both are doing it automatically because you're both engaged with the topic at hand. The best way to do that is to guide the conversation to a place of mutual interest.

A common failure mode I see is where people will ask questions about things they could care less about, then end up stranded in some awkward conversational territory that neither person cares about too much. It is nice to let the other person vent sometimes, but that isn't the only goal.
ok thanks!

whats the type of functionality not available?
Peanut brittle
He'd attempted suicide mere weeks prior to his death. He was also an extemely high-procile inmate facing serious charges.
> every employer ive had has been clear about this.

Why did you submit to their unlawful attempts at restricting your speech? Was it just ignorance of your rights?

Everyone in the US can discuss their wages. It doesn't matter what employers are "clear" about:

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-right...

This is not a new situation. The National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935:

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

> media just pushing narrative.

No different to you pushing your narrative that everyone should submit to the unlawful whims of employers.