skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's see, UAC is nice for your grandmother who might click on something that it shouldn't, yet, we, advanced users are constantly annoyed by those cof,cof "security" features who get in the way when doing something.

Even for us power users, we might hit some drive-by exploit, a friend might send us something that got wormed or whatever. And now, unless that malware comes with a UAC bypass/privilege escalation exploit which is worth millions of dollars, we get an unexpected UAC prompt and have a chance to stop a minute and actually notice that something is Not Right.
Crucially, that number could represent the number of seconds, or the number of milliseconds since Unix epoch (e.g. Date.getTime() in Java)

You kinda have to guess from context that if it's a 10-digit number, it's probably seconds.
Come on, you can do better than this. Nobody expects you to watch every ad, it’s a numbers game. Advertisers know that people don’t pay rapt attention to every ad but they also know that you’re going to see the at least start, hear it even if you’re looking at your dinner, and the only thing more unlikely than you going to the bathroom every 6 minutes is that you mute the audio and turn off the display each time. A lot of ads are familiar brands, so they don’t even care about watching the full length if it reinforces something positive about their company.

Businesses will pay for those percentage changes because in aggregate a lot of people will see the ads. This changes when they know the odds are zero and that’s why YouTube is doing this.
Can it produce any meaningful outputs with such an extreme quantisation?
but unreadable to nothing means readable to everything/everyone. maybe that is what they meant after all
I think he's also talented at assembling great teams. He has a deep personal network of incredibly talented people to draw from.

It's really hard to pull the right people together and sweet talk them into walking away from all the other incredible things they're working on, but it might be the single most important thing that an executive at a new, growing company has to do.
Many tourist are really scared of trying something they don't know.
I concur that, for the use cases that OpenAI's voices cover, it is significantly better than Eleven.
Converting from a local date/time with an associated timezone to an UTC time is not a lossless nor unchanging operation. By converting everything to UTC, you're throwing away information that you might need to do the conversion at the 'last mile' later on.

For example, imagine I schedule a dentist appointment for 9AM in my local timezone sometime next summer, and put it in my calendar. Now, if the government decides that we won't do daylight saving times next year, my dentist and I still expect that appointment to happen at 9AM local time. However, if my calendar application had converted it to UTC using the timezone definitions at the moment I created the appointment, it would show in my calendar at 8AM, and I'd be an hour early!

This is not an as hypothetical situation as it seems. To give just two recent examples: the Chilean government decided to postpone the start of DST with less than a month's notice last year, and Morocco shifts the clock an hour during Ramadan, the date of which only becomes certain on the day itself.
No? From the readme:

In Utils folder, there are three pre-trained models:

ASR folder: It contains the pre-trained text aligner, which was pre-trained on English (LibriTTS), Japanese (JVS), and Chinese (AiShell) corpus. It works well for most other languages without fine-tuning, but you can always train your own text aligner with the code here: yl4579/AuxiliaryASR.

JDC folder: It contains the pre-trained pitch extractor, which was pre-trained on English (LibriTTS) corpus only. However, it works well for other languages too because F0 is independent of language. If you want to train on singing corpus, it is recommended to train a new pitch extractor with the code here: yl4579/PitchExtractor.

PLBERT folder: It contains the pre-trained PL-BERT model, which was pre-trained on English (Wikipedia) corpus only. It probably does not work very well on other languages, so you will need to train a different PL-BERT for different languages using the repo here: yl4579/PL-BERT. You can also replace this module with other phoneme BERT models like XPhoneBERT which is pre-trained on more than 100 languages.
To be honest? Patience. And research. And not be afraid to switch doctors.

Also cutting edge treatment is available basically only in US and Thailand if I remember correctly. Other countries consider that treatment to be "archaic" ironically enough.
I lived in Hjulsta for ten months. Statistics don't get worse than that. I was usually the only white person out after dark. Twice people rang on my door in the morning because I forgot my key out in the door over night. I moved away because it was too far from my workplace. Best supermarkets in the entire town though!
RoboCo is a nice vehicle building game.
https://roboco.co/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1067220/RoboCo/

It has one of the best mechanism simulators I've seen in a game with all sorts of gears, differentials, slider joints, springs etc. I've found it handy for virtually prototyping, you can mock up and test machine concepts much faster than CAD software.

Oh and it has a python API:
https://docs.roboco.co/latest/
It's relevant for a sense of perspective for the majority of people who are reading this page (because they come from the US).

People quote articles like this in the US to pretend that the EU is suffering from some dystopian crime wave but (from the perspective of the US) the opposite is true.
It’s universally 12.5% in London.
I'd recommend looking up model grounding by multi-modal training. Seemingly models improve as you add more modes.
There is no country that compares to sweden if you compare the numbers by capita.
Yeah. I got burned by a CLA before. Never again.
Google search for “slave labor definition”: labor that is coerced and inadequately rewarded, or the people who perform such labor.

We can split hairs and debate semantics but that definition fits my use of the phrase.

I am not judging anyone doing the work. I’m judging the companies providing the “distasteful” options.
The recent resignation of Stanford's president comes to mind:

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188828810/stanford-universit...

> The president of Stanford University has resigned after an investigation opened by the board of trustees found several academic reports he authored contained manipulated data.

> Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who has spent seven years as president, authored 12 reports that contained falsified information, including lab panels that had been stitched together, panel backgrounds that were digitally altered and blot results taken from other research papers.
It works. I use ollama these days, with litellm for the api compatibility, and it seems to use both 24GB GPUs on the server.
If “everything is UTC, all the time” is enforced at the entry edges of the code, couldn’t the entry edges be refactored to always specify the UTC timezone?
> I also don't understand the US practice of not including relevant sales tax charges in the cost of a good.

The idea is that if it's just baked into the price, customers will ignore it but if it's applied separately customers will consciously recognize the amount of money the government is taking from them and presumably apply pressure not to increase that amount.
Seems like the ideal way to store them to me!
> When I'm choosing an open source tool to use, then I want

BZZT! You just said "I want" in relation to something you get for free.

There are only two valid paths, enjoy stuff for free and expect nothing or pay up and expect whatever you want. Can't have both.
Mosquito while being biggest killer of all, still has an important role in a food chain as a water predator in its larvae phase.
Every heard of daylight savings time (DST)?
And its simpler predecessor (IIRC) Rocky's Boots.
Wouldn't the correct answer be there is no way to know if gods (or anything for that matter) exists?
Good for you. I worry however. Not exactly for my own safety, but for where this is leading. It can become much worse if this trend is not forcefully dealt with.
Content negotiation is surely a fire composed of tires but there are sadly many scenarios where it is necessary. Deciding whether to redirect for example is often context sensitive.

In other words content negotiation is useful to be able to respond intelligibly. If a client asks you for json but not html, it might not make sense to return html.
If they already started a new life, aren't they already home?
There's an anime about it called Steins;Gate
>Anyway, the Right party pulled the balance of power from the Left and formed a centre/right coalition more than a year ago, because of all the bad people coming here and doing bad things. Weren't they going to fix this?

While I do think problems are way overblown, I don't know if you realize, these issues take generations to fix. If there is one legitimate scary bit about immigration is that it has VERY long-reaching consequences. You can deport someone who just got there, you can't deport someone's grandkid, he has nowhere to return to.
OK, add improvised explosive devices to the mix. Some of those are remade from grenades.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/31/bomb-experts-c...

Czechia has the same population as Sweden. Such series of intentional explosions would be considered insane here.

Trends matter, too. Sweden used to be known as the country where people don't lock their doors. Very high trust societies are rare and their demise due to rising crime is harmful to entire humanity.
I wouldn't trust either the CCP or Falun Gong to speak my weight, they are both power structures and they are both engaging in all kinds of PR exercises to put themselves in the best light. But to Falun Gong's credit: I don't think they've engaged in massive human rights violations so they have that going for them. But there are certain cult like aspects to it and 'new religious movement' or not I think that the fewer such entities there are the better (and also fewer of the likes of the CCP please).
It sounds like you disagree with Eliezer about how AI technology is likely to develop. That's fine, but that doesn't show that he's a crank. I was hoping for something like a really basic factual error.

People throughout history have made bold predictions. Sometimes they come true, sometimes they don't. Usually we forget how bold the prediction was at the time -- due to hindsight bias it doesn't seem so bold anymore.

Making bold predictions does not automatically make someone a crank.
or "don't explode" is in the 10%
He’d probably be better off going to Meta or HuggingFace and working on getting open source as close to OpenAI’s offerings as possible. I expect that real innovation (vs. commercialization) is now fully dead at OpenAI, with them instead focusing on ROÍ for Microsoft.
This will never matter in, say, a site configuration dashboard where a set of options is generated quadratically from a couple small sets of data.

There are some features that will never be used at any significant scale.
Hungary and Slovakia, the only European countries that haven't allowed illegal immigration in, are at the bottom of that chart, while Sweden is getting rekt...

Legal immigration is of course fine and necessary, as long as the state and socials systems can assimilate it... (Japan is a good example). But articles like this show concerning data points in western countries with uncontrolled migratory policies.
> SoftBank and others had hoped to be part of this deal, one person said, but were put on a waitlist for a similar deal at a later date. In the interim, Altman urged investors to consider his new ventures, two people said.

JFC
The quality is really really INSANE and pretty much unimaginable in early 2000s.

Could have interesting prospects for games where you have LLM assuming a character and such TTS giving those NPCs voice.
Is it a community-determined "best practice" to prioritise reviewing a contributor's history over reading their contribution and upvoting/flagging according to its content?
Do you set up a new database schema for each unit test? If yes, that tends to be slow if you have many tests (hundreds or thousands), and if no, then you risk getting stateful dependencies between tests and they aren’t really unit tests anymore.
What area exactly? I honestly as a swede do not believe you.
Bootstrapping self awareness in GPT-4: Towards recursive self inquiry
The speech generated is the best I've heard from an open source model. The one test I made didn't make an exact clone either but this is still early days. There's likely something not quite right. The cloned voice does speak without any artifacts or other weirdness that most TTS systems suffer from.
Can be adjust client-side, or wherever you need to present it, rather than adjusting stored data.
Possibly add the Incredible Proof Machine (https://incredible.pm)
You can do the same for anywhere. For example Tenderloin:

"Tenderloin in San Francisco is known for its cultural diversity - home to micro-neighborhoods representing the Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Pakistani, Central Asian, and Yemeni communities. There is a bustling cultural scene with numerous live jazz bars, theaters where bands like The Rolling Stones and Beatles have headlined, and museums highlighting the historical numerous LGBT+ community".

That said, Östermalm didn't feel bad when I visited. I think op is confusing Östermalm and Östberga.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38337988
Except isn't datetime.now() still going to return a tz-naive datetime? I would much rather have a method that requires an explicit tz, or explicitly uses UTC (like utcnow, but with the right return type).

Looking for this mistake in code reviews gets really old.
Not sure if its exactly relevant, but I would also add From the Depths as well.

It has a very steep learning cliff, but once you learn it you can build all kinds of war machines, from ships to robot walkers and spacecraft. And you create the individual systems which your vehicles use as well, such as steam engines, weapon systems, AI, etc.

Its a game I've spent many hours in.
FTA:

At its peak BlueWalker 3, which resembles a Tetris block, is as bright as two of brightest stars in night sky...

Scientists say while the apparent brightness of BlueWalker 3 is not constant, its peak is on a par with Procyon and Achernar, two of the brightest stars in the night sky.
Undoubtedly, there are a lot of HN posters with a vested interest in OpenAI's continued success… Talk is cheap when it doesn't affect your bottom line.
I do a lot of PayPal stuff and this isn't true. You only get charged their fee (closer to 2-3% for AUD-CNY and AUD-USD) when converting your balance from one currency to another.

If your card gets charged in a foreign currency, the bank takes a few but PayPal won't.
Yeah, in the case of winmodems/softmodems, it was because A is cheaper. Or, at least, you could externalize the costs.

In our case, we technically did not support your hardware - you had to show up with a working modem. But in practice, if you want to retain your customers, you need to support their hardware. At one point we used to have CDs full of known good drivers for all of the common softmodems that we'd send out if we couldn't figure out a configuration workaround. Even then, I had a handful of discussions with folks where I basically told them that their thing wasn't going to work - they either needed a different modem, of which we'd recommend a few that we knew some stores carried, or they needed to find a way to cut down their line noise. I'm one of those types that takes it a little bit personally when I spend a bunch of time on something and still can't solve it, so that always sucked. Maybe you could say that wasn't strictly the modem's fault, but even the cheapest hardware modems had better tolerance for line noise.
Sweden always had a massive gang problem, nothing to see here.
I also don’t get it. I first started seeing it used by kids coming out of Hack Reactor etc. and hence to me it screams “amateur hour”.

Of course plenty of people far more experienced than me use them; they still look like clowns though.
Awesome, thanks! I'll add it.

May I please cite your comment as a recommendation and link to this?
> I just took the train into the city, had a burger & beer, and soon I'll train back home. I have zero worries about my safety.

My grandma smoked since she was a teenager and she is still alive and has no cancer. I guess all tobacco research is just fear-mongering.

> Weren't they going to fix this?

Were they? I’ve read a summary of the Moderate Party manifesto (https://archive.is/v6IYb) and, well, it looked pretty moderate. It looks like those measures will simply prevent exacerbation of the problems rather than solve them in under a year. It’s not like they did something similar to the Salvadoran gang crackdown.
Maybe HN User romafirst believes the US is the relevant nation in any discussion on any subject?

Some people are just US-centric. They believe everything should be looked at through the lens of how it affects the US. It's just how they are.
> But I wonder what monotone functions are the least threshold-like.

The list of primes?
A store’s opening hours will probably remain 9am-5pm regardless of any time zone changes around it. If you run a bunch of stores across time zones you need to know where each store is and whether it’s summer or winter to work backwards to find out 9-5 in UTC.
Are you even following this?

>You actually think of the most esteemed AI researchers will have trouble finding funding after this?

Plenty of those actually left already ...

Ilya is good but is one of many, and by many I mean there's 100s of equally capable researchers, many of those with more flexible morals. Note: I'm being generous to Ilya and taking him at face value on being the self-proclaimed AI messiah that is keeping us from the destruction of the world.

Thanks Ilya, but money is money and investors would definitely prefer to put their money in a for-profit than a non-profit. This is even more true after this whole fiasco.
The main figure in the article literally said their work felt like digital servitude [slavery] and implied they didn’t have other options.
Yes, I used the word interchangeably, but I could see how assimilate could be construed in the fashion you mentioned.
Deprecation should not break anything. At some point the code will be removed and the org will have to pin the version until the deprecations are resolved.
I suspect this is bound to locality.
There’s no immediate conflict of interest though. No self-dealing has actually occurred yet, and you have to assume a tremendous amount of bad faith years in advance of reality to get there.

Suppose I am on the board of a wildlife preservation nonprofit, and I am thinking about starting a catering business, and talking to potential financial backers.

If you want to take it to the extreme, you could argue that I could award my catering company a lucrative contract to provide food for the nonprofits cafeteria. But that would be entirely speculative on your part. it would by no means justify immediately firing me from my position at the nonprofit. If you take those hypotheticals out far enough, you could basically argue anybody with any other job or role is potentially in conflict of interest. But again, doing that requires assuming a tremendous amount of bad faith.
Erosion of faith in science (whatever that means) is not due to research fraud lol.
> Data APIs should be rate limited

Hypermedia APIs should be rate limited as well, because otherwise people will just go and screen scrape (like many HN apps do, because HN doesn't offer an API). All a "data" API does is make the scraper's job easier.

> Data APIs typically use some sort of token-based authentication / Hypermedia APIs typically use some sort of session-cookie based authentication

So what. Any web framework worth its salt can support multiple authentication / credential mechanisms - the only "benefit" I can see from limiting cookie authentication is to make life for bad actors with cookie-stealer malware harder (like GitLab does, IIRC).
I’m actually more in agreement with you than I think you realise. We are not “special” at all. We have no right making other species go extinct. Animals for sure feeling suffering, loneliness, sadness etc.

That fact we’ve caused this level of suffering is abhorrent to me.

I agree that other animals feel loneliness too. But not the same level of anxiety about “what if I don’t exist, or my species or bloodline” doesn’t go on.

This level of anxiety is reserved for us, in the same way we’re worried about the stock market or economy not growing year on year. This is our gift.
He may have learned a bit in the last 20 years
Greenland only has 50K people and China's timezone situation is kind of crazy. I don't think those really support your argument.
"Two other OpenAI board members - Helen Toner, who's a director at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, and technology entrepreneur Tasha McCauley - also have ties to the so-called effective altruism movement, which works to ensure advances in artificial intelligence align with the best interest of humans."

"Effective altruism." Where have I heard that before.
especially the "novelty budget": https://craftinginterpreters.com/methods-and-initializers.ht...
Working condition are factored in demand and supply, unless the market is very small. Every position is hire-able if the you pay for it.
Doing cheap PyTorch inference with Modal.com
The world is burning and you’re acting like dust matters. I’m so tired of this shit.
I know we are a bit off topic. It seems it would be more like if several prominent followers of Jesus committed mass genocide in their respective countries within a century of his teachings. Stalin is considered Marxist-Leninist.
I worked in an office, then at home where I worked constantly, then back to the office where I appreciated closing my laptop and being done.

Now I've been remote for many years and am happy to say I've trained myself to watch my hours and leave work even though I'm home. I change my slack status, minimize all work apps and walk away. When I come back to my computer for something personal in the evening I don't look at work. It took some practice, but closing things down walking worked for me.
Now if I could only stop solving work problems as I try to fall asleep...
I get that we're operating in a low trust environment, and you don't yet have any reason to trust me.

I will say this: I'm not here to carry water for past performance. I _am_ here to build the foundation into the organization the community deserves, and I have a track record when it comes to making organizations more responsive to the communities they serve.

Not only will I respond to the questions and concerns, I am actually working on systemic solutions that will provide transparency as a matter of course.

Of course, these are just words for now. Judge me by my actions in the days and months ahead, and know that I do aim to earn your trust. Edited to add: *and I aim to build the foundation into the kind of organization that, by merit of its rules, processes, and community representation in governance, doesn't require us to be trusting in the first place.