skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda slams AI for recreating her father’s voice
Those high notes really kind of overflow to baritone there
You know how you can tell they are about to lie, they use the scripted "Wow. Yea. Great question, analog31. So, as a company, Foobuzz puts their customers first, so..."
It would be an interesting place to add additional units to an already trained model, to continue training and get better performance, or to fine tuning.

For tuning, keep the original model parameters fixed, and only let the model adjust parameters to and from new "tuning" cache units.

This would allow different tuning unit sets to be swapped in, or even used together. Foul language avoidance units + specific terminology units + be concise units, etc.

Mix and match tuned unit sets, like super prompts.

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If the number of new parameters is low enough, higher order optimization (requiring higher memory) might be a possibility for very fast and effective tuning.

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And maybe grow the sequence length, and number of units, during training. A few units for short sequences. Then increase training sequence length, add more units, continue training, and so on.

Perhaps some kind of performance or gradient analysis could govern cache expansion, so an arbitrary schedule is not required.
> Before COVID, there were plenty of anecdotes from remote companies about how it helped their hiring and productivity, but that wasn't enough to convince the vast majority of companies to try WFH.

I think there's a bit of a selection bias. I believe many people can work effectively remotely and these likely applied to remote companies. But many people are less effective remote and these wouldn't succeed in remote companies. In the end I certainly think there's a space for remote only companies, but I'm not sure if it's a model useful for the whole IT sector.

> All we hear are anecdotes, that wasn't good enough to change the status quo before COVID, why should it be enough now to change the status quo away from WFH?

In the end it doesn't matter. It's the managers calling the shots and carrying the responsibility. If their guts tell them office work is the right direction, it's their bet.
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How is it justified to not include investment income channeled into savings as not part of overall savings rate? Money is fungible after all.
This is very cool, and it’s a fun read so far.

I have a tangential, low-value question that I figured I might as well ask since the author is here. I have an old iPhone 4s whose passcode I have forgotten. I’d like to get some of the photos and data off. As far as I can tell, this exploit doesn’t require “legit” access to the device. Would this process be useful for retrieving data that’s already on the device?
> may need to be normalized.

But that's post-processing; isn't the TFA's argument that it's hard for researchers to share raw data?
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"Staggering incompetence" is indistinguishable from "bad faith." Someone didn't do the most basic of QA:

> Microsoft Defender is detecting the latest version of Tor Browser as malware because it is using a new heuristic detection method that is designed to identify Trojans that use Tor to hide their activity. However, the heuristic method is too broad and also flags the Tor Browser itself as malware.

The lack of consideration for the impact is what makes it bad faith; they clearly didn't care to properly test it, or did and didn't care that they were also flagging the browser itself. I'm sure quite a few people thing the Tor browser doesn't have a legitimate use.
TrailOfBits still publishes the iVerify App, which doesn't go so far as actually exploiting your phone, but is still a useful app to have installed. It will send you a notification when there is an iOS update available, and you can configure it to remind you to hard reboot your device on some periodic schedule. I have it installed and appreciate the reminders to reboot.
Died of covid is hard to prove, that’s why the alternative was used in the first place. Only excess mortality really showed the real impact.

Of course the deniers continuously moved the goalposts, claiming that the lockdowns themselves caused the excess mortality. This was trivial to disprove by pointing them at countries that locked down early and had no excess mortality. It’s still crazy to me how one group can have a chain of incorrect assertions, but then continue to make new ones without any self awareness.
What added layers of bureaucracy?

I describe a system that is maximally efficient for the individual.
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It seems like everything you said applies to Airports as well. Hardly any of them are anywhere near where you'd actually want to be (city center). Over the decades, the infrastructure will build up to connect the airport to the city. In my home (Vancouver) they weren't connected by a train for 73 years.

Airports of course also have enormous 'processing' time. It's normal to arrive 2 hours early.
Or to check if that original all-hands teams call was recorded.
An employee in a state exposes the employer to legal, regulatory, and tax jurisdiction. Many employers are not set up to handle compliance in states other than where they are located, and even many multi-state employers may not be set up to handle compliance in a particular state.

Not all states are understanding about this either; many states are notorious for penalizing employers for failing to comply with compliance requirements they didn't know they had because an employer moved to a state without telling them.

Prior to COVID, many companies considered this grounds for for-cause termination. Even post-COVID, some companies still consider this grounds for for-cause termination.
In as much as a university degree in, say, Computer Science, is a good software engineer, yes.
Copyright is complex. And artist's rights are outside of copyright, in some respects. An example.. in the past, painters have had their works bought, and then hung in unfavourable conditions. Or in places/locations, which reflect poorly upon the work of art.

Artists have sued, and won, to have artwork moved, shown differently, or force-sold back to the artist.

Now, everything you say is copyright... you. At least in my legal jurisdiction! Even my image is, in Quebec! Yes, that includes if you take my picture outside.

So what of one's voice? And if you don't have a real agreement, to use that voice in any way desired. And then you use that voice to.. I don't know, advocate for terrorists or something weird.

What then?

I don't think it's completely clearcut, and I think there will be changes, decisions on this going down the road.
The author is making so many assumptions based on a single quote from a slide.

There is zero evidence for what they are accusing Google of doing.
It feels like Google is just running their brand to the ground trying to maximize the profits.
I meant privacy shutters. Movable plastic or metal pieces capable of stopping light from reaching the camera.

Or, again, no camera at all.
> Which isnt even independent!

What do you mean?

Who is pulling Duckduckgo's strings?
GenX "big whatever" / "evil corporations" leftism is completely dead at this point. People should drop it since it only ever brings them to incorrect conclusions.

If you want an evil corporation, it's the small ones that are usually the worst.
I came to the opposite conclusion and started importing US keyboards into the UK. I figured the UK layout I was used to wasn't different enough to justify existing, and the US layout has primacy because it's effectively the reference layout for programming language syntax design.
what's your retention/comprehension of the content at those speeds? i find that those speeds allows me to understand the concept as it's whizzing by, but the retention of it is not good. everything i've ever been taught and personal experience about long term retention all say speed is not the most conducive.
I know which site you are talking about before even clicking the article :(
Yasmine from Lyft Support seems to have made the same mistake.
Your best bet is to post it in relevant subreddits and Hacker News. So r/netsec, I suppose.

Do you use RSS out of curiosity?
There is Steam for ChromeOS in the Beta channel right now. It's working surprisingly well, running inside a VM with virgl acceleration.

I could imagine a gaming Chromebox or Chromebook with dedicated graphics in the future.
> The point, which is very well known at this point, is that manufacturing EVs actually causes much higher emissions than ICE cars. In other words, at time of purchase, buying an EV is worse for the environment than buying an ICE car.

At the point of purchase, buying a reusable water bottle is worse for the environment than buying a disposable water bottle. This is not a complete argument.

> Since EVs are cleaner to drive but not manufacturer, it takes time for EVs to emit less emissions overall. That's what I have mentioned and the chart in page 6 mentions. It takes tens of thousands of miles of use for EVs to have less cumulative emissions than ICE cars.

Vehicles last about 12 years on the road (on average in the USA). Average miles per year is over 12,000. It seems like your argument implies that EVs very very easily save emissions over their life, and probably massively since they will pay for their own emissions 4 or 5 times over their life. This assumes that EVs don't have a longer life on the road than gas vehicles, but it is reasonable to think they could last longer.

> So this is just one component that shows EVs are not strictly better.

No, it absolutely does not show that. It shows that you can arbitrarily pick a moment in time where an individual EV is behind in terms of emissions, but that over the average life they are STRICTLY BETTER. If on average they are strictly better, then net they are strictly better (this is how averages work).

> Given people usually buy new cars fairly frequently, it's very possible that EVs are a wash in terms of environmental impact

This is a very stupid thing for you to say. You don't get to just make up nonsense and draw conclusions from it. This isn't something you get to just say 'people like buying cars, therefore they won't drive them enough to save emissions'. You have to look at data and extrapolate from the data, and the data says you are just being ridiculous. The data is very clear, and you aren't even remotely close to being correct. It's extremely easy to check this. You don't care though, because you want to try to get to the conclusion that EVs are bad, rather than try to figure it out.

Watch how easy it is to check:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/business/electric-vehicle...

All studies agree ... electric vehicles save between 50 and 70 percent CO2
Drinking alone? As long as you don't start talking to yourself and/or to your imaginary friends
Absolutely.

Hence "never choose the one giving you an ultimatum" is weird advice.
>That's what you should be saying, because that's what the article is claiming.

What's with the aggression? All I'm saying is that I don't expect the average end-user to notice something "extremely obvious" like that. Simple as that.

I'm taking no position on whether or not Google is actively doing this, nor am I completely confident that I have or haven't experienced it in spite of noticing very single-brand-heavy results for non-branded queries in the past. I'm only pointing out that the average end-user is a lot less adept at seeing "obvious" things in situations like these than many of us are.

Edit: Put it this way - You and I might notice something, but that's because we're involved in this industry whether directly or tangentially, to varying degrees. I don't expect others to notice something like this if it's not something that they generally care about.
Why would it need to be the 60's? There's plenty of groups today who support weakening or repealing the Civil Rights Act, and those groups increasingly get the attention of elected officials at all levels.

Having said that, it is very easy to discriminate against someone with a different skin color. But a different caste? I truly do not know how anyone who have any idea what caste a person belonged to, or comes from. But I am very curious.
Can you elaborate ?

Can I run any android app as if it were running on a phone ?

I am specifically thinking of running the 'lyft' app and booking a car ... is that possible ?
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It would depend on the details.

Let's say public universities educate X students at a cost of $Y. If the government says "We can't pay $Y, we'll pay $Z", then the universities will almost certainly say "We can't educate X people for $Z, we can at most only educate $Z * X/$Y people for $Z". Then the remaining slots are for sale to the highest bidder, who will on average be able to pay more than the average of all X could, because they're the highest bidders.

More generally, those who have to pay for themselves are in general more price-sensitive than those who have someone else to pay for them. That's true of the students who have the government to pay for them, and it's also true of the government who has the taxpayers to pay for them.
I think what the GP is saying is that neither thing is okay, but if one is acceptable (in the sense that it's not so terrible that using the resource is untenable) then the other should also be. Sometimes the difference between whataboutism and pointing out inconsistencies can be very small.
Can you get it with a standard bios (or flash one)?

I have no interest in Chrome OS, but I'd like a framework laptop that reliably runs Linux out of the box without setting the kernel taint bit.
If anyone's curious, the name comes from planets around the star having been discovered using the TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST
> Never choose the one giving you an ultimatum
It is fine. I believe the Wagner Act, which prohibited child labor federally, is unconstitutional.

Everywhere child labor is a symptom of the poor. But I believe parents should have the ability to teach and labor their children as they see fit. Regulations against unsafe working conditions are fine, so long as they're implemented at the correct level, but the government deciding it knows better than the parent is always wrong.
Actually, seems like they did try the suggestion out, basically by training a model with a dedicated sink token with all zeros.

The verdict seems to be that you still end up with other initial tokens being used as sinks, so it is better to have a dedicated sink token.
> Today, as some companies are changing their remote work policies to be return-to-office, there seems to be a lot of resentment about this, and I don't really understand why.

Because these companies hired a lot of remote employees in the interim. Also, many of the employees of these companies decided to buy houses in areas where they could afford to buy a house instead of continuing to rent - and now after several years these companies want to renege?

How can you not understand the resentment? This is the biggest FUCK YOU in the history of corporate America.
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Indeed, I’m reading the comments on this post because my only experience of Chromebooks is with the cart of them that my students use at school. And that experience has been such a wonderful one that I literally threw one into the trashcan in frustration one day trying to get it to work.
Lossy compression is a bad idea for scientific images. For instance, we often need to understand the statistics of photon detection events in background regions. That’s one of the first things to get tossed.
Most of this is built-in to iOS, and there's no need to "hard reboot your device on some periodic schedule."

Edit: it appears that all of the application's functions are easily done by setting reminders and simple automation using built-in iOS apps. This is crapware and I don't know why OP is pushing it as so necessary.
This is very similar to an ancient confidence trick, whereby someone is selling something (e.g. an investment scheme or whatever) and people who are colluding with him pretend to be interested strangers eagerly buying into the scheme.
Just throw out any statistic that does not offer distribution information. Quintiles should be the minimum standard, but deciles are preferable.
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The people making the rules will always get special treatment because having the power to make the rules requires having the power to grant oneself special treatment under them. And for the same reason, this is not a problem solvable by rules.

I don't care that Jeff Bezos gets better customer service from Amazon than me, or that some senators son can pick up the phone and talk to the head of the IRS. What I care about is that the service I get from the IRS is horrible and the service that I get from Amazon is good.
Megan made so many assumptions in that article based on a slide and single quote that we can't even see.

How about they actually provide some evidence before making such claims?
I'm not sure if you meant this to be snarky but that's how it comes across to me! If your questions were genuine, then there are indeed good answers.

> Why is this a good design?

It's simple, so it's a good design for expository purposes.

> If I were writing a serious parser intended for human use with nice error messages, I would want to know the position and length of the parsed output

That's roughly how the fastest Haskell parser, flatparse, works

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/flatparse-0.5.0.1/docs/F...

You could write a very similar article to this one about how flatparse's Parser type is a functor, and then someone could snarkily respond

> So, on a successful parse, it returns the result and the index into the string that it has parsed so far. That’s seems error prone and rather weak. What ensures that the “index into the string that it has parsed so far” is, in fact, the true amount parsed?

> If I were writing a parser for expository purposes, I would just return the unconsumed input.

> So I’m confused. Why is this a good design?
Really enjoyed reading through the first few parts! Cool to follow along from this kind of perspective. I too read through tons of source code to figure out how other people implement things like exploits, fun to see someone else does the same :)
Not a celeron in sight - hurrah!

This will make the Amazon query a lot easier - no more wading through loads of 2 or 3 gen old celeron shite.

Perfect
Yes, a unique index per table, not globally. Although the probability of a global colission is still extremely small.
People will think I work for the company or am getting a commission or something, but just want to say that Kagi is awesome and a great replacement for google.

Also, in Google's defense, Amazon is obviously doing the same thing. Why is it so hard to search for the lowest price item on Amazon. Obviously Amazon doesn't want you to comparison shop and spend more $'s especially on their ads.
Turns out hexapodia was the key insight all along!