skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While TTS has broad application, I am skeptical about Apple’s process being able to compete with the best narrators.

I have my biases. My wife and I have licenses to listen to about 500 Audible audio books and in the best of them I feel like I have a human to human relationship with the narrator that is similar to a relationship with the author.

I have mostly worked on deep learning projects over the last eight years, so I appreciate the tech as an engineering tool, but I think it is important to view tech as a servant to human experience.
I don't think the gym is a great analogy, at least for me.

If I go to a new gym I am familiar with 50-100% of the equipment. I might not be making the most of it but I am going to get a lot out of it on day one.
U.S. judge says Celsius Network owns most customer crypto deposits
Netflix is the same. You can only watch HD netflix on the netflix app or on edge.
So, this is about Apple's undocumented AMX instructions, issued from CPU, executed on a special accelerator execution unit.

Is there one such unit per CPU core?
It's not just LFP batteries that don't use cobalt. Tesla's medium density batteries use a "high nickel" cathode rather than a nickel-manganese-cobalt cathode.
What is so unserious, disingenuous, and illegitimate about the “system”? I’m sure it isn’t perfect, but here I am using the “system” and living my life.

Where would you rather be and what is your improvement on the “system”? Sorry to pose questions at you but I see so many strange comments on the internet that sound like “red-pilled” nonsense. If you have a good personal value proposition to society and aren’t completely entropic, life is good. If you aren’t, it’s hard. That’s been modern western life for a while now and it’s not bad. Could it be better and is there room for improvement? Absolutely. But living in parallel red pill reality is an absolutely unhelpful endeavor.

I’m reminded of the Oracle at Delphi. “Know who you are” which means know your place in society (father, son, farmer, king etc and your responsibilities) and “everything in moderation”.

Red pillers ignore that ancient wisdom and live in and obsess over an alternate almost completely fabricated virtual reality of no real value. Hanging out with suspicious and cynical strangers on the internet who share deep distrust of reality is depressing and isolating. After-all, you use the real system to have a life and so does everyone else. Might as well face that fact and truly engage with flesh and blood in the meat space rather than whatever or whoever is on red pill virtual land.
> We'll show this in the third blog post of the series.

Thanks for the pointer! Will have a look.
Probably depends on the vehicles, right?

If we'd use more public transport like trains and busses, we might be very well off.
Chill.institute (manual) and showrss.info (scheduled TV) + put.io + cronjob running `rclone move` into your Plex media directory is one I've seen that seemed pretty neat.

Entire process is probably faster than finding which service the thing you want to watch is streaming on.
I think the author downplays the significance his work because it only applies to "small neural networks". There are a lot of use-cases that can benefit from this type of optimizations. Discovering how to use an undocumented fast accelerator available on millions of devices is very valuable.
I don't think anyone on the right wing cares at all either way. So even if it's only a small part of the left wing, it's composed on 100% left wingers...
It’s not big enough to to tell the major publishers that. Especially if it wants mainstream titles on its relatively small ebook platform.
I find it hard to believe that pulling electricity from the grid would increase carbon emissions vs. a vehicle burning gas in its own engine. How is that possible?
Again? With how fragmented the availability of TV Shows is, sometimes there was no other option except for sailing with my boat over the 7 seas.

If you are in the US, you pretty much have access to every streaming service, but outside of the US, some people like me struggle to access shows from Hulu for instance, and sometimes the only viable option is to wait until a TV Channel buys the rights of the shows one desires to watch.

I haven't got time for that!
> I'm curious did Itanium fail because the model of pushing the complexity onto the software and a human failed or did it fail because of lack backward compatibility for a world that was largely x86 at that point?

The answer is: yes

Itanium failed because getting instruction parallelism is actually incredibly hard to do and compilers didn't catch up in time to make it matter. But it also failed because of AMD64 which had backwards compat, was cheaper by a lot, and was a lot easier to get decent perf out of.

Opinion: I think Itanium was always destined to fail. The idea seems good on paper but fails in practicality because it limits what the hardware can do to achieve speed without breaking backwards compat with itself. You can't have a superscalar Itanium by definition because branch prediction etc. is by design delegated to the compiler. This means that the chips can literally only go up via clock speed, which as we now know doesn't scale forever.
Lucky you! I could only afford a 486 DX/33, but at least I splurged for 230 MB of hard drive.
Your choice of the word "stink up" makes the whole thing more funny. Maybe it was intended, but(t) I'm a very literal person.
It Is Always Time to Build
yeah, I canceled Prime a few years ago. I reasoned that if I needed the product fast then it would be faster to physically go to target or walmart. And if I didn't need it fast, then the default shipping would be fine.

Their add-on services all felt lackluster too. Most of the prime video content is not well-rated.
I think you might be an outlier. Netflix DVD rental was huge in the US—can't speak for Canada though. Everyone I know had it.
Lithium iron phosphate are not widely used in EVs. They gave poorer energy density, so lithium ion is preferred. I think electric golf carts use LiFePo batteries, to keep costs low and because range is less of an issue.
Apparently it's been reinstated?

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/ - At least I could access it now.
I feel that I should be expected to have some commentary on this post, but I’m just going to quietly admire it instead.
Is it?! Maybe I need to order some tomato sauce from Australia. I miss ketchup, I just want it to taste like salt/vinegar/tomato like it used to before I noticed the sugar.
What if you want to end a crow relationship?

We have a murder of 50+ that roam our neighborhood. 3 of them hang out in my backyard and love to eat our fruit trees and hang out in the pool. I’m happy to share the pool, not so much the fruit. Especially our precious Asian pears!

These are big suckers and strut around the yard with more swagger than Salt Bae at the World Cup.

My biggest complaint is their trash day escapades. I got to spend ten minutes in the rain cleaning up after them yesterday.

The crows and the squirrels get a lot of my mindshare. I don’t know, maybe that’s some sort of gift.
I would be surprised if we did not already have AIs that could invent calculus from first principles.

LLMs solve natural langage and common sense, which are not necessary for discovering calculus.
that is nothing to do with dislike, and to suggest so is petty and shortsighted. that person has built a career on hypocritical, reactionary, sensational reporting. she has no moral or journalistic integrity, and represents everything that's wrong with modern journalism. she is an objectively negative influence on discourse and society.

I don't take anyone seriously who uses a spray and pray method to garner attention on an issue, especially when the targets are people of such low quality.
First electronic games used calculator chips
This blog post goes into the fascinating but brief details on how early Mattel electronic handheld games were reverse engineered to enable emulation.
I recall some time back something like this article was posted in HN and I conveyed a story about the time some crows were screeching like crazy in a tree outside my bedroom window waking me up early. I was so pissed I went outside and got some rocks to throw at them. But then I noticed there was a badger (or some cat like creature, it was early, and I was groggy) and it was climbing up the tree to try to get to the crow's babies.

I guess my inner mommy kicked in and I threw the rocks at the badger, and it fell out of the tree and ran off and the crows quieted down. It seemed to me like they were bowing or nodding their heads to me after I did that.

After that, whenever I went outside, I wave at my little neighbors. I posted that and someone on HN said it was a good thing I made that decision otherwise the crows would have hated me and might chase me outside. I thought that was a little kooky when I first read that, to be honest. But after seeing a lot of other article posts like this one, and the experience I had, I think there is something to this idea that crows are smarter than, well... smarter than I had previous considered.
It all started with cave men drawing butts on the walls using mud, now, after hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, we graph digital butts.
I think the idea is that it’s problematic to pay for many different streaming services to get the content. Spotify got it right for music - one subscription, everything i want is there. Movies etc, not even close.

How is one to fight back? The traditional way worked for music. I’m happy to pay but I’m not going to be taken advantage of.
well... I guess.tiff, i mean that could very well have been it. idk it just seems like a terribly bad business decision by the whole industry. If it was a capacity thing then adding headcount would decrease capacity for at least a year or so as you have to integrate all those people into culture and work to get things productive. On the other hand, I can see a "turn the knob up, then turn the knob down" strategy making sense to some people.
Usenet is definitely the answer. Old school but it works and its inaccessibility relative to torrents keeps it out of "easy-ish target" territory for IP enforcers.
lets just say, sea shantys are becoming more popular by the minute
So, it's just a thing you think might happen, because there is such a thing as gluconeogenesis? I went looking, and the only cite I found was a study suggesting this does not in fact happen.
Here are some depending on whether they define the repo as hate speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_by_country
I loved my water rocket! That thing was amazing. You can still get them, and it sounds like they're as impressive as they were.
I think trackers eventually can find out that bad actors and bad them out. If you claimed to have sent 100 kb but nobody reported to have received them then you are flagged.
I agree with anything you said. At this point I'm already happy when the media doesn't try to praise drones (Volocopter, Lilium, Joby, ...) as the ultimate solution to our traffic problems, unfortunately.
I think this point is often missed. We live in daily contact with pet animals that think entirely differently than us, and even humans with special needs behave in radically different ways and value radically different things in their lives. If tiny variations in the human brain are able to wreak such profound differences in motivation, behavior, and cognition, why are people fixated on expecting banal human hormonally-driven power-seeking and survival behavior from a constructed mind with a totally different architecture in an entirely different substrate?
It's an arms race. If you make piracy too convenient, the IP lawyers and lawmakers start working against you.
Sodium ion batteries are less dense than lithium have a third of the range, I'm live in argentine and see the destruction of open mining for rare metals for cents,
make me wish this happens, but for now dense electric cars of not low range will probably use lithium and smartphones and notebook probably will continue to use lithium for long time, maybe be replaced by graphen but in the long game.
Science has no means to get at moral truths, just physical observations. It can’t even prove per definition whether moral truths exist, or why anything exists at all.
Spotify largely works as all-in-one sevice for (mainstream) music, I don't know why it would have been unreasonable to think that same could have happened to movies/series.
I'm skeptical given the state of the art.

There is way more good audio content out there than I have the time/interest to listen too and I can't believe I'm that atypical. And a book is a relatively big listening time commitment. I'll happily pay a few dollars more for a good human narrator.
BTW, this is still the case. https://dvd.netflix.com/

Netflix has never dropped their DVD service even though they wanted to many times. There are still places in the US where broadband is unavailable.

Also, due to first sale they don't have same license restrictions as they would on streaming. Once they buy the disc they can rent it as many times they want for as long as they want.

I've considered re-adding the DVD rental, I've been using Netflix since they included the coupons in DVD player purchases, because they have the films that aren't available on Netflix streaming and it would be cheaper than adding the myriad streaming service subscriptions.
The biggest problem with the DX/50 was the bus. AMD was already struggling to run the VLB at 40MHz with their DX-40 parts. A lot of video cards couldn't handle it and running certain hard drives controllers on that speed sometimes ran the risk of corrupting disks. I can imagine that the DX/50 was a hellscape of I/O trying to find cards that could run at the 50MHz bus clock or being stuck at EISA's 33MB/sec.
Given that they still have lower energy density and fewer charge-discharge cycles, I'd say we can be optimistic for the future but we can't currently claim that they work "just as well".
Every study done on ketogenic diets, for starters.
can't they just do that development on the blockchain itself?
LastPass data breach led to $53K in Bitcoin stolen, lawsuit alleges
In 2008, sure. Any worthwhile monkeying of seeding statistics in a largely compliant user base will obviously stick out like a sore thumb.
It’s impossible to say whether it is a lie, because of incompleteness.
This is an earlier publication of the same paper before it was published in Nature.
M1 has one AMX unit per cluster AFAIK. This however can and does change between different chips.
Totally pro. Because nowadays you don't own any of your digital media. Piracy is the only way to "own" any digital media
I'm not the person you replied to, but have the same stance. I'd just not consume that content.

I don't deserve to have everything, even if I want it. At the end of the day, it's just a piece of media.
It's interesting to watch all of the moralizing and rationalization in here. I would expect this crowd of (mostly) very smart adults to just accept that piracy benefits them, hurts the content producer, doesn't hurt anyone they know, and has a very low probability of negative consequences.

The tendency to compress an uncontroversial description of costs and benefits as they affect multiple parties into a unique point on a moral continuum to be observed by all parties is age appropriate for a teenager.
You will miss a big pile of content anyway because even if you are in full consumption mode with full access to everything, no one has the time to see/read/listen/play even a fraction of what is published every given day. Given our rate of media production, the backlog of potential worthwile stuff you will miss out on is ever growing.
I think a lot of people's first reaction was "what do you mean, again?"

Personally I was always open to it, no matter all great services along the lines of Netflix and Spotify etc.
One thing I haven't liked about AirBNB is being told that I have to keep my status as a guest a secret from the neighbors.
I suspect BDSM is explicitly illegal in more countries than racism is (unless we define racism narrowly, perhaps).
Apple did prefer to expose it through their own Accelerator.framework API however...
I disagree that we're at peak monetization (see what the price of a premium cable package used to be)

Since you mention Spotify I'm super happy with it. It's basically everything I ever wanted consistently. Can recommend new music better than any person I know, and I can feed it any song that I and somebody else like as a radio station and get a pretty decent list of songs we both don't mind. Granted I don't listen to music as many hours as I did when I was young, but that's just me changing I think.

I feel like video games are actually often underpriced if you wait for a steam sale. I think child me would be blown away by the fact I can buy a game 10x better than mario 3 for 1/10th the price of Mario 3 ($50). I'm talking Baba is You, or Hollow Knight is 7.49 right now, or Slay The Spire is 8.49 right now. When I grew up I had "Gauntlet" which had some traits/bugs that made it nearly unwinnable without a guide, even by old standards.

In TV I think there's more of an argument to be had, and if you had only said TV I think this would be an interesting discussion, but if you think it's everything I think the more likely explanation is it's a you thing (maybe just not as easy to please anymore and upset at the media for not giving you that same magical feeling).
I submitted a fascinating blog post featuring this same era of calculator chips but related to the first Mattel handheld electronic games

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34259747
True, but I expect the critical mass of the target group will remain to be people frequently listening to Audiobooks --> Those people are more-likely subscribed to an Audiobook service --> are not paying a per-audiobook price but a flat-fee --> The flat-fee for the whole catalog is lower than buying one audiobook.

I would expect this target-group to access a mix of human and digitally narrated books during the transition to digital narration, with best-selling books still being narrated by humans.
Users may then complain about the quality of the digital narration, but will keep using such services as the price-expectation is now set.

--> A competition for better digital narration engines will likely drive evolution of the engine and authoring tools, further increasing the pressure of publishers to justify the bottom-line of per-book Audiobook production costs.

> Cherry-picking is easy, but I paid for this, it needs to be human quality throughout

That's a really interesting aspect. If the Audiobook delivers the content with a human voice but still not engaging enough, how many listeners would put the blame on the narration rather than the book itself...
("I like this new song of Metallica, but I don't like how they sing it")
Cloud is not the new mainframe. Maybe in 15 years.
It's not the rudeness so much as the dishonesty, as I explained. If you want to defend Alexander effectively, best not to create the perception that his supporters are amoral and untethered from reality.
I regularly use my MacBook for narration. I look forward to this being better-adapted for books.
Wow :-)

Thanks for sharing this!
Right! Streaming services weren’t feasible back then. We lacked the bandwidth, no apps existed (because internet connectivity outside of a desktop/laptop computer was in its infancy), and not that many people connect a computer to their TV.

People were excited about streaming services because we all got sick of dropping $20+ to buy a shitty movie or album, and there were always availability issues at video rental stores.

Ownership over movies and TV shows isn’t particularly important. I don’t have data to support this, but it seems true that people watch the (probably overwhelming) majority of movies only one time. Why own what I don’t want or need? And if I really enjoy the flick, I can still buy a disc.

Music seems more important to own since owning is the only way to guarantee availability.
Someone can plant racist information anywhere and wait for the ban hammer then?
Git is the original blockchain, actually. :D

Just distribute it to many hosts, and you're done. Post-commit hooks on one server can do that with no effort.

A TV company built a CDN like that. They pushed the data to Git, and it propagated in a fanning out fashion.
Ars might have been running Squid back then, but I kind of doubt it. They weren't that huge of a deal.
Author here: Seems like a good trick! Though won't this affect shared memory alignment and make me loose those LDS.128 instructions? Or do these not require alignment? There's so little good docs on SASS.

In general I'm still confused about whether vectorized load instructions (LDS.128) necessarily lead to bank conflicts or not. My impression was that consecutive 32b floats get mapped to different banks, so to avoid conflicts I'd want the warp to load 32*32b consecutive elements at each step.
You had no idea about it because it's false
I read today something I am not sure I believe, that Adobe opts you in by default for all of your photoshop art to be samples for their ML products. (It was a reddit post so I would need to see something more official before I really give this more thought)

If that were true it would definitely get me thinking about whether I want to keep using that product at all, let alone whether I am paying for it.
Justwatch provides a lot of that and I bet you could automate the rest
Self-hosted Mattermost and Gitlab can be done reliably at very low cost, had better uptime than their cloud services for us and would've likely prevented leaks like these. At least you can add some layers of security for self-hosted services so that stolen tokens aren't enough to steal code or messages.
There is a bunch of them (log formats). I don't think any is like ISO/ANSI standarized, but many tools work with many of the different formats.

Probably the most common one (or at least was most common, maybe not anymore) would be "NCSA Common log format" (or just CLF) which looks something like this:

127.0.0.1 user-identifier frank [10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700] "GET /apache_pb.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2326

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

Many tools for getting analytics out of server-side logs can work with CLF and the various variations. But probably today there are more "modern" formats as well.
Apple has done a wonderful job making CoreML smoothly integrated with iOS, iWatchOS, iPadOS, and macOS development.
What you call a huge opportunity is actually (or also, if you prefer) a major shortfall in the current LLMs. Whether it will turn out to be merely temporary, and more pertinently, how it might be solved and whether it can be solved with more of the same, are themselves unanswered questions at this time.
I don't really mind paying. What I mind is geo-limiting content.

And yeah, when Netflix starts enforcing these multiple accounts; my wife and myself often work in different locations (different countries) so if they start enforcing that, it's definitely a cancel as we are not abusing anything.
Morally, I won't go back to pirating - I stopped that around 2006. But I understand why people are so frustrated by the current landscape. It's a terrible mess that is incredibly consumer hostile, and these companies deserve to get slapped around by the "free market" (which includes being exposed to the high seas) a bit.
Nice try cops
they’re indicating on the posted reddit thread that the “black only” mod prohibits research forcing the black characters to stay primitive…
Aptera is a thing again? I remember reading about it when I was in high school over a decade ago. I thought they smashed their prototypes and went bankrupt?
You know what’s even cheaper than renting DVDs?

But also, I get your stance. I prefer legal routes over gray/black markets.