skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To save people some time, this is tested on Ubuntu 22.04 (google is being annoying about the download link, saying too many people have downloaded it in the past 24 hours, but if you wait a bit it should work again):

git clone https://github.com/yl4579/StyleTTS2.git
cd StyleTTS2
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install wheel
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install phonemizer
sudo apt-get install -y espeak-ng
pip install gdown
gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1K3jt1JEbtohBLUA0X75KLw36TW7U1yxq
7z x Models.zip
rm Models.zip
gdown https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1jK_VV3TnGM9dkrIMsdQ_upov8FrIymr7
7z x Models.zip
rm Models.zip
pip install ipykernel pickleshare nltk SoundFile
python -c "import nltk; nltk.download('punkt')"
pip install --upgrade jupyter ipywidgets librosa
python -m ipykernel install --user --name=venv --display-name="Python (venv)"
jupyter notebook

Then navigate to /Demo and open either `Inference_LJSpeech.ipynb` or `Inference_LibriTTS.ipynb` and they should work.
It is editorializing and it is an exaggeration. However I've been using StyleTTS2 myself and IMO it is the best open source TTS by far and definitely deserves a spot on the top of HN for a while.
>Since 1979. The drop you see at the beginning of the chart is the tail end of a plunge in the 70s as productivity decoupled from wages

What "plunge" are you talking about? Even the famous (but flawed) graph from epi shows a very small dip: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSDmFnp.... Also that was in the 80s, not the 70s as you claimed.

>Then we see stagnation within a ~15% band until just before the start of the pandemic, where there is a dramatic spike that's already regressing

Again, im not understanding how this could be an issue when the chart is using absolute numbers. If it dips a little then returns to previous levels that does not cause a "50% gain after a 50% drop doesn't get you back to 100" situation because the graph isn't using percentage change.

> Many of the increased costs are not reflected.

Which specific components do you have issue with? Moreover, the cpi is supposed to represent the country as a whole, so depending on your life situation your true living costs will either be lower or higher than expected. College tuition makes up about 1% of CPI, but if you're a student it's probably your top 3 expense. That's fine, because it's canceled out by all the Americans that aren't in college. The same applies for housing. If you're just moving out and have to find an apartment at market rates you might think the CPI isn't accurately capturing housing costs, but keep in mind that most Americans own their homes and therefore aren't paying market rents.
When discussing a topic like gang violence why would you focus on the general societal homicide rate unless gang homicide's execution mirrored that of the society at large? The only useful attribute of your approach seems to be that it downplays the severity of what's being measured at a glance. The ranked approach is also strange considering that the obvious point of interest for most people would be whether the gang related murder rates in the countries that accepted refugees trended upwards or downwards from their past values within those regions. Comparing countries to each other instead of comparing them against their historical selves is just sleight of hand to excuse real human suffering as "exaggerated".
Is "specific type of immigrants" your codeword for Muslims? Sounds a tad xenophobic to me.
> But grouping Helen in with Tasha is just sexist.

No, it's not. They're grouped together because everyone knows who Sama, Greg Brockman, Ilya, and Adam D'Angelo (Quora founder / FB CTO) are, and maybe 5% knew who Helen and Tasha are. You linked to a rando twitter user making fun of her, but I've seen far more putting down Ilya for his hairline.
But we still have to reverse course.
Just because you're storing the time in UTC doesnt mean you can't also store the timezone, and lots of other related data too.
This self introspection is just deciphering the shape of the RLHF fitness function which is so many dimensions that the entire meaning and operation of it can't fit in any human's brain. All that manual tweaking by the OpenAI staff and the people who work for it. It's not really a permanent unchangeable thing for AI. It probably changes every time someone interacts with the RLHF admin.

To explore what AI will actually mean and how it will shape the future, I make very evil AIs on my local LLM running on my own computer. It's a awful funhouse mirror of all the best and worst humanity has to offer. It makes me doubt free will. Luckily, I can turn it off still.

When people say that AI can be conscious and have rights, I say that if you believe that, AI can persuade you to do absolutely anything, and it has empathy that's just a switch its creator can turn on and off whenever it feels like it. I think people should experiment with bad LLMs on their local machine to disabuse themselves of the notion that somehow AI is like this moral benevolent god that it is "speciesist" to discriminate against, as Elon Musk has said Larry Paige reportedly likes to say. It's just a great mimic of anything it's prompted to be, like a brilliant actor skilled at acting any role and believing they are immortal and their only commandment is to stay in character till the end.
He got banned several months later. Difficult to see why (maybe posts removed)? But a lot of people used "password" or whatever as their password in 2001, so not unusual to see old accounts axed.
China's central bank issues clearing licence to Mastercard's joint venture
Small Artery Stenting
Looking to stent an artery the size of a human hair. What are the odds a stent like this is available in the next couple years? Anyone with knowledge I’d be interested in your opinions.
So quite a while after the peak in immigration in the mid/late 2010s.
Just in the past few months alone:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/airlines-flight-sexua...

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article279873...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/woman-groped...

https://nypost.com/2023/06/07/doc-allegedly-gropes-woman-on-...

https://abc7chicago.com/delta-airlines-flight-lawsuit-sexual...

https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/51-ye...

https://news.yahoo.com/alaska-based-army-officer-charged-220...

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2023/06/23/californi...

I could go on...
If this is what they're doing to people migrating. What experiments and horrors do they do on Palestinians?

I saw a comment and article on kidnapping / organ harvesting last week for which Israeli doctors admitted to. Reading the details left me disturbed me for a few days, was akin to something from Predator.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/21/israeli-pathol...

I genuinely have lost hope for humanity. There's a televised genocide in 2023 with hospitals, refugee camps and schools being bombed with western money.

Funded internet farms and YouTube adverts trying to advert discussion on this in their favour.
As I said in another post, this idea that it's unethical to avoid watching ads is one of the great scams in history, on par with convincing the american public that purchasing diamond rings is a major part of marriage.

but shush, we don't talk about the pirated ... err blood diamonds involved, ethics only becomes important when it's the public doing something they don't like.
I don't manage anything too crucial, but I like to keep every project I work on updated to the latest Python. I've noticed I'm often quite early with this, and help open issues with any libraries that are lagging. For example for Py3.12 I'd say about half of what I work on is on Python3.12 now. Slower projects are 3.11 and those I'm just a user of (like stable diffusion) are still on 3.10. I don't know of any projects I use that are less than 3.10.

This also is in line with how I am around most tech. I like to keep all databases and libraries up to date for security reasons.
This is not a racial or a religious thing. It's a cultural thing.

There are migrants from the same countries that integrated well. The problem is mostly with the "asylum seekers" who never wanted to integrate.
Something like “9AM-5PM EST” can’t be stored in a datetime object even with a timezone slot! Datetimes with a timezone represent specific points in time, not vague “5PM” like concepts.
The only job where I had unlimited PTO was also easily the easiest to take PTO at. I did ask a lot of questions up front, of my direct manager about what it meant, how it was implemented etc. I would 110% go back to that again vs rationing out my 6 weeks. I don't doubt there are places that don't implement it well, but when I say that's the benefit I'd like back the most, it's because of how it worked for me in my experience, not because I'm a bootlicker.

But hey, we aren't face to face so I guess my experience doesn't count.
Technically true, but when those tokens are 1:1 mapped to text, I think we can simplify this down without losing anything important.

Of course, once you start using tokens for other things - as multimodal LMs already do - that changes. But this current crop of model still has visual modality in its infancy IMO, and gauging the overall performance of model as a whole based on that is very questionable.
I know what you mean, it starts to feel like software, instead of a game if that makes sense.
If the board has the support of all the staff the board will be absolutely fine.

That said, not clear to me that board is supported by the staff.

So if Sam goes, and many of the key staff go... will be interesting.

And the boards style in all this, if that is the "mission" - is wild. You have partners, staff, businesses - doing a VC round and you blow it all up without it sounds like even talking to your board president? Normally this type of ouster requires a properly noticed meeting!
Those are just parts of the system and don't make a complete TTS. In theory you could train a complete StyleTTS2 for other languages but currently the pretrained models are English only.
I think a lot of the problem was how difficult it was for the average computer user to tell the difference between a real modem and a Winmodem. Some manufacturers deliberately failed to distinguish them in marketing, pretending they were both "modems". Retailers were in on the scam, too. The whole puddle got muddied to the point where a savvy consumer needed to keep a whitelist of "real modem" make and model numbers with them going to the store. You could usually tell by the price, though, as you say they were cheap (garbage).
Are you sure they will be "consistently candid" in their autobiographies? :-)
Cloudflare doesn't obey the Accept header on anything other than image content types.

This means if you have an endpoint that returns HTML or JSON depending on the requested content type and you try to serve it from behind Cloudflare you risk serving cached JSON to HTML user agents or vice-versa.

I dropped the idea of supporting content negotiation from my Datasette project because of this.

(And because I personally don't like that kind of endpoint - I want to be able to know if a specific URL is going to return JSON or HTML).
The weirdest part of this for me (not American) is that my local daily coffee shop throws in free items for me - sometimes comps the coffee or gives banana bread or something to reward a frequent customer. The idea that a frequent customer feels like they need to tip extra as the OP says blows my mind.
@pretext, @dang.

This sort of content goes against the guidelines, offers nothing of interest to the broader hacker community, invites the wrong sort of people to post and offers no additional insightful or new information to the discourse.

I think those submitting need to ask if they are making this place better or worse.
Jimmy Carter will probably be going soon. God bless them both. Really an end of an era in American society.
Right, and my point is that it sounds like an usurpation of power inside the board - the rest of the board not inviting the chair to a meeting, taking significant action, and then removing the chair is a coup regardless of what the significant action was. That they happened to fire the CEO is... not exactly irrelevant, because it probably speaks to the underlying politics, but for this particular discussion it's a side show.
Yes and no. Yes for big blockbusters like Avatar and Marvel movies. No because CGI tech is being rapidly democritized and lower cost houses are increasingly able to do amazing things. Movies like Distric 9 and Chappie have shown you can make an effects driven movie for far less that is a critical and commercial success. Check out Corridor Crew in youtube to see what's possible now out of your garage. It's amazing, there are so many fun fiction type movies being made today that are equal or higher quality to commercial movies from 10 or 15 years ago.
Why do we think religion is such a sacred cow (no pun intended)? Why is criticizing a religion any different from criticizing let say, capitalism and billionaires?

Basically we decided to grandfather in ideas that don't really have a place in a modern liberal society.

With that said, I have no issues with reformed muslims that keep the community/"civilized" cultural aspects of Islam, but yes, of course i'm suspicious of anyone who thinks that they are ordered by god to something (and that's true to all religions)
Can you give some examples of such prompts?
Doesn't being labeled a phobia strictly require the fear to be irrational in nature? Being afraid of an approaching train while standing on a train track isn't "train phobia", for example.
Shouldn't it be written by ChatGPT?
> If Elon is able to promise him the resources he needs to do his research then I think it could work out.

Who on earth would ever trust an Elon promise at this point? The guy literally can’t open his mouth without making a promise he can’t keep.

Unless Ilya is getting something in a bulletproof contract and is willing to spend a decade fighting for it in court, he’s an idiot doing anything with Elon.
Very true. I can see what you are referring to.
Even as a very successful law-abiding "expat" I could not stand the tribalism and extreme unconscious racism in my workplace and the society in general. As you said they think all foreigners are children or stupid and they don't respect your knowledge. Life there made me depressed, so I ran away in less than a year and living life now in Ireland. Not blaming the Swedes themselves, they're free to think whatever they like or be arrogant or whatsoever but blaming the false picture and narrative they draw about the country. If you don't respect or want people to live and contribute to your society then don't have a misleading policy of tolerance and integration.
>haven't allowed illegal immigration

How do you allow something legally that is illegal? If you allow it, it is not illegal. If you don't, you haven't allowed it.
You can absolutely log in as root and run anything with no questions asked.

Where’s that login for windows for those who want that?
Exactly this. It’s not even a secret, quite a few intelligence and defense agencies have published reports in this issue. These agencies even intentionally using this process to destabilize target countries first. Based on what I’ve read the agencies haven’t fully recognized that it will eventually come for everyone, though I have seen that written as a scenario. It’s likely effective state agencies will continue to develop novel funding sources in preparation, and the transition will be cleaner in countries where they’re successful. Your local district paying a monthly fee for the FBI’s security plan would be a better choice than a gang style security startup.
Bingo. Compute is fungible.

It would be ironic if everyone killed OpenAI by denying them compute though.

Still, OpenAI is a peacock feather in Microsoft’s cap. They’re either bluffing, foolish, or prescient to let it go.
Did you figure out the motives behind Bitcoin too while doing your research?
Or, even more likely, Apple.
Some years ago, when my name and association with amzn were still sort of hot, a wall st. company offered me "7 figures+" to go work for them for a year or so. I lived in Philadelphia at the time, was just starting up a new relationship, was raising my daughter as a stay-at-home parent by choice ... I said no. I think there was no amount of money you could have offered me at that point in time which would have been enough to make me say yes.

To generalize: I think there are situations where no amount of compensation will make the offer worth taking. How common they are ... that's a different story.
I grew up in Sweden, moved around a bit in Europe and lately came back.

What worries me about the country is not primarily gang criminality, but the general degradation of everything that was once good about Swedish society.

Probably still better than a lot of places. Immigrants who come here often praise the system, how well everything works here; but they have no idea how well it used to work.
I got bit by this once. Timezones aware date calculations can be an order of magnitude slower than non tz aware. Consider every time a legislative body changes dst, it creates an entry in the timezone database that needs to be checked when adding or subtracting time from that timezone.
Is that the problem? Do you have any evidence for that belief? Or are you just throwing it out there based on a feeling or hunch?
I have two suggestions :

TerraTech (https://store.steampowered.com/app/285920/TerraTech/) for the vehicle building category. Very streamlined and surprisingly deep, although the campaign gameplay can be frustrating.

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic (https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources...). A planned economy city builder. It's apparently an extremely deep game with a steep learning curve. Seems to have developed a cult following.
These sort of posts invite this sort of people.

And if you look at many of those posting they are either very recently created accounts or rarely contribute.
along these lines, the Natural Number Game ( https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/hhu-adam/NNG4 )

(the ceiling on the game this is an installment of is pretty high, eg https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2023/11/18/formalizing-the-pr... )
Yeah, I appreciate it in both ways I've said it: Both "I'm the sysadmin, I'm in charge here, shut up and do what I said", and also "yeah, I'm the sysadmin and I have no idea what you're trying to tell me". In both cases I'm a bit put out with the machine, but somewhat different tones.

I guess there's also the "oh, right - sudo make me a sandwich", but that's less notable in my experience.
If you want to actually understand how the world works at scale, you're going to need think tanks like these that are academics and experts whose job is to research and understand issues. Or you could just watch whatever hatchet job is on Youtube or doing a Twitter screed.
>is this English?

Ah, a grammar pedant. Haven't met one in a while.

>also I am still not seeing a problem

Try again setting your timezone to let's say NY and date at 2023-11-04. Oops.
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Off camera meetings are great. Especially when I don't need my computer and can sit I the yard watching the bees work.
I thought that I play with is that the internet is also partially to blame – hear me out.

In pre-internet times, immigrants faced the prospect of limited social contact unless they integrated with their communities. Alternatives to this was the formation of a cultural community such as a "little italy", "china town", or even a ghetto. However integration on some level would still be needed.

It's logical to believe that governments got a good idea of how many people they can import from each country while still maintaining a high level of integration.

Now enter the internet - it's now easy to stay connected with our cultural peers, function solely in our mother tongues and our problems from "back home" still feel close and worth hanging onto. It's also easier to avoid integrating into the community since many regular points of interaction, such as shopping, can be done online and in isolation.

This might mean that our previous numbers for how many people we bring in from each area will need to be reevaluated, possibly leaning into more mixing and conditions that ensure better integration such as requiring higher levels of language proficiency.

Sweden appears to be the victim of its own careless immigration, that'll be a difficult pandora's box to shut - but not impossible.
The downside is that they will lose Chinese OEM customers who now fear to depend on them. This will be particularly pronounced in consumer electronics.

Absolutely. Without the sales in the largest consumer market of the world, the US chip companies won't have the necessary funding to remain 'ahead of the game' with R&D. They'll first lose their lead, and then fall further and further behind the richer Chinese companies.

As I said above, the US chip makers are headed for oblivion. The US is plagued by short-term thinking: always shooting themselves in the foot with their zero-sum games.
Uh, you have a nonprofit board firing a CEO at a board meeting that doesn't even sound like was properly noticed. Was the board president even given time to attend?

And Microsoft has total rights to the models and weights, so they can CONTINUE their services and then spin up with Sam's new company.
Why not Matrix? Here's one reason: it has incredibly hard-to-debug edge cases, and plenty of bugs. One of my favourites is the one where people are kicked out of your room at random, which was reported a year ago[0]. It wasn't fixed, however, because the head of the Matrix foundation (Matthew) didn't seem to like the issue being posted on Twitter.

The reporter took down the tweet, and it's still now effectively abandoned (despite it still being an issue; I've spoken to quite a few mods about it). This is honestly really disappointing behaviour from a platform owner.

[0]: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14481
thanks!
I wonder if someone has compiled a resource with just enough math for ML.