skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regular solar flares could be bad for any lifeforms trying to get a stable civilization together, but on the other hand, all that energy arriving in the atmosphere could trigger some very life-conducive chemistry, similar to how we theorize that lightning was involved in our own primordial soup.
Haven't worked reliably in Google since somewhere around 2012 AFAIK.

Edit: Downvote all you want but this is documented.
>a 12th Gen i3 is not massively far from an M1

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4746vs4754vs4765vs4104/...

1215U (accounting for the overwhelming majority of "12th gen i3" laptops) is about 75% of the performance of the lowest-tier M1, so I suppose that's in the ballpark.

Performance-per-watt is still night and day, though, with both i3 laptop chips ranging from 15W base to 55W turbo, and M1 ranging from 7W to <30W.
Why would it be a basic requirement? Cellular modems in laptop are an incredibly niche feature. They're only included in a handful of top-end business laptops and (in my experience) nobody even uses them when present.
Technically aren’t the passengers the employer?

It would be a terms of platform violation.
Self hosting is huge - you don't have to wait in queues like everyone else, and can host in a region close to other servers. Similarly, just getting on the enterprise tiers of the services you use can also guarantee lower latency.
The election cycle is going to be quite something now.
A tablet-based AI app screens for autism by measuring several behavioral signs
UK passport images database could be used to catch shoplifters
In what way is that at odds? A search warrant just a affidavit of why you think (the visible signs of intoxication and/or field tests) you're going to find a particular something (booze/drugs) in a particular place (your blood) that's signed off by a judge so they can take it by force (hold you down and draw your blood if they have to). There's really no hearing or particular extra procedure on top of that. If the warrant is invalid, you challenge it at your trial to get the evidence suppressed, but not when it is issued. Procedurally there's no difference presenting that document to sign in person or electronically. In the old days, you might have had to drive the judge's house in the middle of the to have them physically sign something urgent, but we have email now. As for judges being on-call, that's just how many courts choose to divide up the labor.
You can re-add it, HN title modifications are only applied at submission, not on edits.
Thats what I was doing until now.

Just today, from this thread, I learned about 'emacsclient -t'. This was exactly what I didn't know I needed.

It opens a frame in the terminal (very quickly..) still have everything that my running GUI emacs has.

Perfect.
Over and over this piece puts together an (admittedly compelling) narrative that seems to be alluding to this man and the organizations he creates/leads are a state-sponsored action to shift public opinions on issues. However in each, just taking the first for example, the piece details that they identified these 12 accounts responsible for 65% of misinformation on COVID-19, but never confirms or denies this. Is/was that true?

Similarly, the piece makes vague references to Twitter being a cesspit of racism, and that a left-leaning magazine was killed off for being... I dunno, too left? Not left enough? It's kind of left in limbo. But again, no engagement with whether or not these were correct actions on the part of advertisers based on the known facts.

The assertion of the piece seems to be something like "This man heads organizations that influence advertisers to pull money from what they deem as 'hateful' sources" and okay... are they? Because whether they are or not is a big part of it. It's not controversial for major or even lesser known brands to not want to associate with things like COVID-19 denial/general anti-vax sentiments, nor is it strange that they wouldn't want their products advertised alongside white supremacist statements. One could make the argument that informing them of such so they can take action to mitigate that is universally good: it defunds hate, and it permits a company to present it's stated values better.

The fact that they won't engage with the actual content of all these users and groups they're claiming have been wronged, instead focusing entirely on the source of the claims is a bit strange and frankly undermines the entire work. I totally agree that if this is indeed someone in charge of public money being used to sway the opinions of the masses, even in a direction I might agree with, that's worth knowing and should be properly disclosed. But again, the shyness around the content of the accounts in question is somewhat damning.
This is a harbinger of dramatic change. Scan your whole video and photo library for people, pets, and things, and environments.

Construct new scenes anytime and algorithmically.

"Generate pictures of me with each of my friends, making crazy faces, while drinking mai tai's at my favorite tropical resort bar."
Isn't Nate falling for the Table 2 fallacy here? (Edit: Perhaps not, but it took drawing the DAG for me to be convinced.)
Yes, evidently Lyft employees. The cat owner has been posting updates on a local subreddit[1], and they said:

> I also just got a call from a Lyft executive, they said they are trying to help organize a search party with their people in Austin.

The owner had reached out to Lyft on social media. The story also made the local TV news, although I'm not sure if that's why Lyft offered help (partially because I don't know which of those two things happened first).

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[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/16wl1hd/need_help_l...
http://web.archive.org/web/20230717203911/https://www.nytime...
I was just thinking about the IT Crowd joke where the fire extinguisher’s flammability is explained because it was “Made in Britain”.
> when they're not working at cross purposes with a dozen other manufacturers.

Manufacturers of Chromebooks mostly only deal with the outer shell and branding of the device.

The computing hardware is controlled by Google, who set strict guidelines for compatibility. The ChromeOS software is of course completely controlled by Google. This announcement sounds like it's basically creating a new brand around an even more restrictive set of higher-performance hardware requirements.
thanks. i have recently been asked by a couple of acquaintances that have done a few character voices in the past what I thought on AI and what can really be done with it. because of their infrequent performances, they aren't union members, but I'll pass along these links.
Had the same thing a few years ago, ended up just buying a new phone
Somewhat related:

David Bunnell, a Founder of Tech Magazines PC World and Macworld, Dies at 69 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12766020 - Oct 2016 (1 comment)

R.I.P. David Bunnell, founder of MacWorld - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12749100 - Oct 2016 (1 comment)

Edit:

There's also this: https://www.technologizer.com/2023/09/18/a-1983-look-at-the-...

- which by coincidence was posted a couple weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37564852) but didn't get any comments.
At $Job, our first encounter with "Zelle" was an on-line seller who accepted payments only via Zelle.

So - we called our bank (which happens to be one of the co-owners of Zelle), and asked for their advice on the situation.

After being transferred a couple times to reach a "Zelle expert" there...he told us to never pay by Zelle if we had other options. Because (not directly said) Zelle's Only Really Distinguishing Feature was that it was "no recourse" if the person receiving the funds was dishonest.
> Artifacts aside, it sounds like Michael Jackson doing a Weird Al impression?! Every line has a distinctly “white and nerdy” vibe: it loses any seriousness and edge, exaggerating words for comic effect and enunciating lyrics really clearly so the punchlines can be heard.

No, it sounds like someone doing doing an impression of Weird Al doing an impression of Michael Jackson. Someone whose mom told them they were special and they believed it.

These examples are standing on a ridge line, surveying the uncanny valley and looking for the best way to cross.
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So they are confident it is just a dumb rock, and it's time to move onto another planet. Good but very boring news.
Talking to lots of middle and upper management, the primary complaints I hear are hard to measure - poorer communication, less alignment, less innovation, etc. None of this reduces the number of tasks being done, but reduces the utility of those tasks. Measuring directly is hard, but ultimately you'd expect it result in lower growth - which many companies are seeing (but it's hard to disentangle this from the macro situation).

I think the hard reality is that companies need to make a thesis on the level of flexibility in remote/in-office work and commit, then 5 years from now we'll get an idea of what works well.
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"People are inherently evil and will cheat whenever possible"

This fact is incidentally how I proved that moon landing was faked and that 911 was a hoax designed by the Bush administration. Very encouraging to see great ideas being recycled.
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I prefer the julienne calendar where entire years run in parallel.
POST-EDIT, CORRECTED ANSWER

I doubt it's currently actually "the best open source text to speech", but the answer I came up with when throwing a couple of hours at the problem some months ago was "ttsprech" [3].

Following the guide, it was pretty trivial to make the model render my sample text in about 100 English "voices" (many of which were similar to each other, and in varying quality). Sampling those, I got about 10 that were pretty "good". And maybe 6 that were the "best ones" (very natural, not annoying to listen to, actually sounded like a person by and large), and maybe 2 made the top (as in, a tossup for the most listenable, all factors considered).

IIRC, the license was free for noncommercial use only. I'm not sure exactly "how open source" they are, but it was simple to install the dependencies and write the basic Python to try it out; I had to write a for loop to try all the voices like I wanted. I ended using something else for the project for other reasons, but this could still be a fairly good backup option for some use cases, IMO.

PRE-EDIT, ERRONEOUS ANSWER

Same as above, but I had said "Silero" [0, 1, 2] originally, which I started trying out too, before switching to a third (less open) option.

[0] https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models#text-to-speech
[1] https://silero.ai
[2] https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models#standalone-use
[3] https://github.com/Grumbel/ttsprech#usage
It's illegal to use someone's likeness without their knowledge in a lot of places.
They don't even have the check for kids (except NY for some reason).
This is definitely bait.
The world’s top% of emitters produce over 1000 times more CO2 than the btm 1%
"the global average energy-related carbon footprint is around 4.7 tonnes of CO2 per person – the equivalent of taking two round-trip flights between Singapore and New York, or of driving an average SUV for 18 months."
Remember Ping?
> 3b->7b doesn't seem like a huge leap

How so? It's on the general order that seems prevalent (and significant) with LLMs? 3, 7, 15 billion?
($429) We busted Patagonia’s “Work Boot” [video]
The writers won the strike so clearly the studios value their labor.
This is working relatively well, the code is really worth a read. If you run it locally, consider the open PR and install sentencepiece as well. It's been generating text for the past 10 minutes now :D

Some of the instructions are ignored though so I'd be careful there, one instruction is to rewrite the previous response by "starting every sentence with the letter A" which is a bit of a hit or miss right now.
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I think part of the challenge here is that in some fields, proprietary tools and formats are so ingrained that requiring openness could be a massive burden to the point where it would be difficult to put together a reasonable budget that includes real open data access.

I think it's important to acknowledge here that there are degrees of open access. Simply providing data files is relatively easy. Making reproducible workflows as a non-developer can be nearly impossible in some cases.
Everything a word processor does - document layout, formatting, spell checking, copy and paste - could be done with pens, paper, a dictionary, and some glue. So why do people pay money for Microsoft Word?
You can't call it feature creep if it's been there since literally day 1.

Some channels use the comment section extensively. PBS Space Time for example does a Q&A almost every episode where they answer questions posted as comments from previous videos.
Hulk picture is wild: Spiron-man, Captain Somalia, Batwerine!
Get a bunch of manuals so you can RTFM.
I find it especially funny when anti-malware tools flag things like 4k intros or even smaller demoscene production.

The people doing that are shaving bytes, fitting music and 3D graphics in self-contained executables smaller than many HN posts. Having enough space for malware after that would be insane.

The reason these are often flagged as malware is that they are typically using runtime compression and a variety of tricks to save space, these techniques are unusual in legitimate programs and common in malware. Malware scanners could add support for the likes of crinkler and kkrunchy, but these are probably too niche to care.
There are options beyond Chrome OS and Windows, and I'd say that almost all of them offer better privacy protections.
I've thought the same quite a bit.

On one end of the spectrum you could use something like SVG if there were standard or dominant tools used to import/export, but then you lose the ascii readability benefit of tools like this, dot, or d2.

It'd be nice to have a mixed text & GUI editor for something like Pikchr diagrams.

https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md

https://d2lang.com/
> It feels like taking money away from people who don't vote for you, and giving it to people who do. That's a bad direction to go down, and I'm generally skeptical about politicians who do this (which is a lot of them)

I'm trying to follow this logic, but I'm struggling. Do you think that people should be able to opt out of taxes by just not voting, or voting for a third party that never wins, or strategically trying to vote for the minority party in an area that heavily leans in a certain direction? I think your interpretation of this also assumes causation in a direction that isn't at all obvious; does he want to tax Wall Street because they won't vote for him, or does Wall Street not vote for him _because_ he wants to tax them? I'd argue that Wall Street isn't likely to vote for anyone who proposes a policy to tax financial transactions, but that's far from sufficient to conclude that such a tax is unreasonable.
Not to be a de-cel, but what are the safety concerns around this? Can see this being great for pranking/fraud?
Lyft and Uber drivers aren’t typically the nicest people.
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> Some inventing custom compression codecs.

I'm probably not being cynical enough here, but this doesn't necessarily imply a desire for obfuscation.
n.b. absolutely no tuning on 3B currently, no RLHF, no instruct, no chat
" you see teachers ending up with very nice piles" - wtf are you smoking, teachers are massively under paid. On top of that they have to pay for their own supplies and they're medical keeps being raised. The benefits they once got aren't there anymore. On the other hand cops are way over paid. Put since they protect the properties of the 1%, the elites never complain about them.
> That last few Lyfts I have ridden in had drivers that didn't 100% understand the English language. It's very possible they mistook the banging action as something other than "Hey, stop! I've left something in the car."

This is a horribly racist remark, basically saying that people from other countries are imbeciles with no understanding of basic human behavior. They can't speak English, but doesn't mean they have an intellectual disability and too stupid to understand what "hey stop" means.
Same happens in Apple App Store BTW:

The first result in the results page is never what I search for.

It is possibly just an ad but I can't remember it being market as one and it feels very off in what is supposed to be a premium paid offering as opposed to Googles ad financed ecosystem.
Brilliant article. It's concerning seeing the attack on free speech happening under the guise of combatting hate/misinformation. As if we can trust the citizenry with the power of electing its government, but not with forming its own opinions!
interesting, thanks for flagging
It's the Warren Buffet quote: “Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.”

I don't even see the money that goes into my savings--it happens automatically before I even get paid. What's left over is a small, small percentage of my actual after-tax pay, and that has to somehow stretch to the next paycheck, which is not always easy.
What I like about Stable Diffusion is the tooling that's being developed around it. There is a "Comfy UI" which I've found to be too difficult, but there is one by Automatic1111 which is very accessible to me (the masses). That gives it a lot of potential in terms of ideas and what can be achieved. ControlNet adds a whole dimension to the generation process.

I am not familiar but is there something similar to ControlNet (at least conceptually) in MidJourney/DallE?
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I hope people revert back to taxis where it's an option.

Lyft and Uber are the same price as taxis - and the quality is dramatically worse now.
>with the arrival of DALL-E 3. This powerful new model developed by Anthropic

The model was developed by OpenAI
Some chat applications used to strip leading and trailing spaces in messages, or even replace consecutive spaces with a single one, padding ASCII art with printable characters allows you to just copy paste them as-is.
Cat found after Lyft fiasco dragged on for days

Definitely a fiasco, but it didn't really drag on for days. The cat was stolen and dumped on Saturday afternoon and was found by investigators hired by Lyft Monday at around 1AM. Less than a day and half to resolve.
Compared to the ancient world of EBCDIC versus ASCII versus various ISO standards versus country-defined encodings versus Extended EBCDIC code pages versus Extended ASCII code pages which varied depending on operating system, nearest flag pole, network adapter, time of day, etc…: Unicode will forever be a simpler walk in the park.

It's complexity is a relief compared to where we've been. It's definitely not simple, but it will forever be far simpler than what our grandmothers had to work with if they were writing international software.
The graininess of the recording covers over a lot of potential problems. But given that this attempt keeps the Beach Boy’s tempo and enunciation, I think this technique, whatever it is, would make a much more compelling version of Michael Jackson covering Eat It.
> loose specification of the RISC-V ISA.

This is being worked on with the Sail model [1]. In order for a RISC-V extension to be ratified it ought to be implemented in Sail. The understanding is also that the RISC-V ISA manual should be built with code snippets from the Sail model (similar to how the Arm ARM is build from ASL definition). The main issue is a lack of people willing and able to write Sail for RISC-V. But that is beginning to change, since RISC-V member companies are increasingly use Sail. As an example, the RISC-V exception type is defined in [2]. Is that precise enough for you?

The formal RISC-V ISA specification is not finished, you are welcome to make a PR to clarify things.

[1] https://github.com/riscv/sail-riscv

[2] https://github.com/riscv/sail-riscv/blob/master/model/riscv_...
> These user-perceived characters are approximated by what is called a grapheme cluster, which can be determined programmatically.

From everything i've read or heard about unicode, "determined programmatically" is false?
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Yeah, all the safety concerns are very valid. Easiest immediate fixes that we're building into our system are 1) preventing people from scaling before doing KYC, 2) creating a content moderation filter on the AI's prompts

Will do more as we grow.
If this was such a win, why did they stop?

A lot of that money didn't "get back" but ended up in various officials' offshore bank accounts. ( Many executives at China Development Bank got busted for corruption https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-11-08/chart-of-the-day-cor... ) And then there's the opportunity cost of not having those companies build something useful instead.
The New York comic example is pretty impressive. I tried creating a short comic story with both Dalle-2 and SD. After a lot of hacking I finally gave up an decided the technology was nowhere near ready. I may try again with this. I wonder how consistent it can be with its output. Can it generate a bunch of consistent and coherent comic book pages?
I can't keep up with the cutting edge between day job and kids. My ideas are either irrelevant or already done by the time I have time. I have SD and Llama 2 running locally, but at this point it's because I can, but any serious work I'd use a managed model to avoid maintenance and stay on current.
None of those capabilities are specific to the framework laptop though? Or are you referring to the high ram enabling multiple VMs?
The get rich at any cost type like to post on these articles at a higher rate I think. When you read a larger and broad range of HN posts you see a substantial part of the population here has concerns about this.
Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Libiya, Syria and about 70% of Latin America.

I spent just 2 minutes for this. I could go on, but you get the picture.