skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coqui Studio and API are shutting down
Email I just received:

Dear Ted,

I hope this message finds you well. My name is Reuben Morais, and I am a Co-Founder and CTO at Coqui. Today, I have an important update to share regarding the future of our services.

As a valued member of our community, your support and engagement with our text-to-speech technology have been integral to our journey. Our mission has always been to innovate and provide the best possible service to our users. In line with this, we've made significant strides in open-source technology, contributing to the broader community's growth and development.

Upcoming Service Cessation: We have made the difficult decision to discontinue our paid SaaS web application and REST API services. This means that our servers will be going offline in 14 days, on December 11th, 2023. Active subscriptions will be automatically canceled and reimbursed for any remaining time after December 11th.

Action Required – Download Your Assets: We understand that this transition may cause inconvenience, and we are committed to making this process as smooth as possible for you. You have until December 11th, 2023 to download any assets or data you have stored in Coqui Studio. Please ensure you retrieve all necessary assets or data before this deadline, as access will not be possible afterward.

Future of Coqui TTS: While our Coqui Studio application is being discontinued, our latest XTTS model has received fantastic feedback from users in 16 languages. The model is available for non-commercial use in HuggingFace, and commercial licensing inquiries can be made by sending us an email.

Support and Assistance: For assistance with downloading your assets or any questions you may have, please do not hesitate to contact our support team. We are here to help you through this transition.

We deeply appreciate the trust and support you have placed in Coqui. Thank you for being a part of our journey.

Best regards,

Reuben Morais
CTO @ Coqui.ai
The Future of Jamstack
Showcase of projects using open Swiss public transportation data
Even Uber for passengers didn't seem too hard to handle. Almost a drop-in replacement for taxis, except some cities added more loading zones because of the increased riders. Uber Eats, different story.
Mexican ecologists start campaign to save axolotl
My takeaway is that clustering is a distress signal and that reducing distress would be the humane thing to do assuming that insects feel pain.
You also can't sort code-filtered search results by last-indexed anymore. The removal of this feature imposes a new tax on searching popular domains of work involving rapidly changing APIs and library preferences, such as deep learning.
Well there's a $1m prize for the Riemann hypothesis. Now this is bigger. Which do you think will fall first?
EFF Urges FTC: Address American Resellers of Malware on Android TV Set-Top Boxes
many things are more expensive when you don't work at a company - for example the health care for a marginal employee at GE is a lot cheaper than you'll get for yourself.

I always used 2x, but probably 2.5x is a sensible way to think about it in a patio11 "charge more than you think you should" mold.
It took them a while to flag also. My team ran into issues at least 80 minutes before this was posted
Broke: Use AI for everything

Woke: Squiggly line!!!

Fun post!
Creating a Fast Time-Series Graph with Postgres Materialized Views
Congrats on the project, but do I hate domain hoarding. It does not contribute any value to the society, it just makes finding a decent domain name a royal PITA.
Such a system would have a market value on $10billions++, nice try trying to get it for 1/1000 the price.
I feel you. I have all kinds of ideas for when he gets a little bit older. For example: a voice-controlled (perhaps motion activated) electric train.
I think having a child gives me an excuse to express my inner child's passion for tinkering.
Kinda surprised they haven’t moved ghost kitchens to the next logical step to avoid some of the issues that come with having them in a location: food trucks.

You could have completely elastic kitchen space deployed to different locations all the time. Trucks could be restocked at a warehouse outside of town.

Delivery drivers just get the address of the food truck to pick up from instead of a physical location.
GitHub outages seem to have happened a lot this year.
HSR only makes economic sense in the northeast. Everywhere else is too spread out for rail to compete with air travel. The most popular air route in the western US (SF-LA) isn’t worth making high speed rail between. The project is expected to cost over $30 billion. Assuming 100% of air passengers use rail (4 million per year), at $150 per ticket it would take 50 years to break even… and that assumes zero maintenance costs. Also it would be slower than taking a plane.
> Because spending time to fix and Jerry-rig a product means you’re not spending time doing something else

Homo-economicus reasoning is fallacious and makes for very boring people. There is very little "Jerry rigging" around nowadays when setting up Kodi on a media PC and the time one "spends" learning pays itself in peace of mind knowing that you are building resilience and won't have to worry about things like a company exposing personal data.
For said data... does anyone actually pay that? I mean if you don't get hired for that amount you've got tons of family time so I guess it works?

What I'm trying to say, I don't see the correlation between having a huge hourly rate vs family time. 40 hours a week of work is still 40 hours regardless of how much you're paid.
This whole thing is so incredibly overblown. Advertisers can flee (although the article only says X is on pace to lose about 75 million) but unless the users do, it's meaningless and they'll come back.

Media Matters is a professional political psychological manipulation outfit. Musk's tweets were dumb and offensive, but Media Matters is milking this for every penny it's worth and trying to make it seem much larger than it is. (as they are incentivized to do).
We agree that it is good to not force every user to spend time configuring their build environment. That’s a start!

I propose solving this problem by storing the necessary environment components in VCS. This eliminates the vast majority of environment setup issues.

Many many many companies do exactly what I propose. It works great. The primary reason that more projects don’t use this approach, imho, is because Git doesn’t have the necessary features. Other VCS tools do, Git does not. I think it would be good to have a popular VCS tool, Git or otherwise, with this capability.

> You don’t have enough disk space.

Sure I do. Downloading dependencies from a package manager or downloading dependencies from VCS requires the exact same amount of disk space.

The nice thing about VCS is it works for all platforms, for all languages, for all dependencies.
Are rents rising in your Philly neighborhood? Don't blame the baristas
There are far too many cars driving around SF carrying no passengers and just a pound or two of food. I think it makes sense for drivers to switch to mopeds, and the parking situation everywhere will naturally fix itself.
I’m always amused on how thats supposed to be the smoking gun, as if some other party that didn't care would ever allocate time and money into the research

no conflict = no interest

if the study is fraudulent due to methods then just stick with that, science is supposed to be reproducible so that nobody has to care about who did the hypothesis and conclusion at all
Any plans to add a "looking for a job" feature. ie I am a rails developer and want to host my equivalent profile on the site?
The fact that this was done in just 430ish lines of BF really illustrates some of BFs power that may be lost on others.
I really think go goes too far to the point of hurting productivity and expressiveness. For example, go is missing any way to write parametric enums (sum types). Sum types make code much simpler and more expressive. The equivalent go code (using interfaces) is uglier, more verbose and more error prone. There’s a lot of features like that which go leaves out - like iterators, optional (nullable) types and so on.

The only tradeoff I see is that go is faster to learn, because it has less syntax. But at the end of the day I don’t mind spending a bit more time learning a language if the result is I can write more expressive and clear code. I love go’s concurrency model. It’s clever and simple to learn. I wish they applied the same pragmatism when designing other parts of the language.
Synchronize a 3D scene across multiple windows using Three.js and localStorage
Part of being a freelancer is spending time finding work and doing a variety of things that clients would consider non-billable but still cost time. If you're going to work 40 hours a week, not all 40 will typically be billable in freelancing.
Thank you. I clicked thinking that I was gonna see someone's home made radar.
I've never met anyone (outside known relatives) with my spelling of surname. When I moved to my current UK city I was surprised to find a Firstname Lastname match in the same city.

Facebook shows dozens of the same name in the general area.

As I've seen some say, if you're one-in-a-million then there's ~7000 people like you out there somewhere!
Right, because spending time curating your pirated media collection is very high on the importance scale... Sounds like your time would be better spent just subscribing to some streaming services and not using either Plex nor Jellyfin / Kodi.
Interestingly that actually does happen in the motorcycle world

For example Suzuki still sells the DRZ400/DR650 bikes new in the US and both haven't been updated in like 20 years other than color changes

The rumor is they are grandfathered in so they can't do any changes otherwise they'd have to pass modern emissions rules
I can try and teach :)
They really don't deserve to be called 'games'.
Clearly the company needs to do better planning and anticipate cars coming to them, causing traffic congestion is a net negative for the service it is trying to provide.
Enforcing the existing laws would fix this. These delivery cars always stop in the middle of traffic or bike lanes because there simply isn't enough space in SF.
vMotion. works great
That's like saying all Oracle customers are leaving for Postgres. VMWare moat is deep.
I wish defer was block-scoped rather than function-scoped; that would solve the "defer in a loop" problem. Right now I just wrap the lot in a function for that, which works and isn't too bad, but meh.

defer is more flexibly and explicit though; I rather like that. It's pretty unclear what exactly that "with" does, what you can and can't use inside "with", you can't "just" run any arbitrary code without creating your own class, and you sometimes end up with 3 or more levels of nested "with"s that could have been one defer.

In short, I don't think there's a clear winner. Both are clunky in some scenarios where the other is easier.
Yet the one and only Millenial problem solver was a MO winner too, so there is some overlap.
I don't think food trucks can just park somewhere and serve/work there.

As weird as that may seem because why have a roving restaurant if it's required to be in one spot?

Nonetheless I think permits are required, the Senior Sisig truck always used to be next to the Equinox on Sansome St. Other food trucks only ever serve at the "Off the Grid" park.
I doubt it's even $10m losses. To your point -- presumably, if it's cheap enough people will start advertising who can't normally afford it.
And it’s not just Japanese companies that manage to pull that off. Some others have managed to do the same. See: Lego, for example. They branched out into movies, games, and parks, but their primary and core product remains bricks.
I really wish to play with those things because I was playing with hardware when I was a schoolboy and found it back then very entertaining.

I’ve built my first computer with soldering all the parts and then started debugging it with oscilloscope to see signals from chips and analyse them to find the problem. And in doing so I have quickly realised that I am missing something. This something was ‘How chips actually work’. Turned out it was called Digital electronics so I’ve decided to learn this on the way.

My treasure and source of inspiration at school time was this book:
Digital Electronics by Roger Tokheim. I was dragging it to school and back every day just like people cary notebooks these days. This was my bible back then. Boys in the school made fun of me for this. The book was amazing and I think it still is.

I remember it all as very exciting time.

Now FPGA seems like a nice opportunity to revisit all of this after many years of programming and developing a new point of view about many paradigms.

May be you can direct me and others like me toward a good community and tips for shortening a learning curve. Possibly many things I am familiar with already and yet with FPGA I didn’t find a good/easy way to start so far. Perhaps you can advice something about ‘how’ and ‘were’ to begin.
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Eleven Labs is blocked by my organization at work. I don't know why. But I did find that Azure has a way to train custom text to speech models here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-s...

I'll also check out some of the other services described in sibling comments.
Nvidia delays launch of new China-focused AI chip -sources
https://archive.is/E8LjB
I don't think so. The truth is advanced by individuals, not by the collective. The collective is usually wrong about things as long as they possibly can be. Usually the collective first has too die before it accepts the truth.
I mean, Kbin.social is right there? Lol.

Lemmy isn't a "fork" of Reddit, as much as it was just a Fediverse thing that existed and happened to become popular in-and-around the Reddit blackout.

The Fediverse-model is good. Mastodon is good, but a poor-fit for people looking for things like Reddit. I think what Lemmy is, and what the Lemmy-users want Lemmy to become, remain an open-question.

Some of these problems also apply to kbin.social. I expect different "Reddit-like Fediverse replacements" to spring up, implement competing solutions, fork, die out, etc. etc. over time. This is the nature of all things open source.

The only way to figure things out is to write code and try it out. Its not like anyone really knows what they're doing here, its a lot of guess-and-check and experimentation. And that's fine.

I think we've more or less recognized that communities built around volunteer moderators have needs that Reddit has failed at (and likely will fail again in the future). Building alternative solutions is an open question in general.

Lemmy for now, remains the forerunner. But I can imagine Kbin.social taking over if they make the right decisions (or if Lemmy developers "pulls a Reddit" and forces another migration).
I believe that these days Dexed is the preferred environment for people who make presets that they're subsequently going to play on an actual DX7, it's that good.
Look at the food pyramid. You're advocating for the same kind of diet that focuses on. It's known to be outdated, wrong and unhealthy.
I got an offer letter, but I've already got an offer elsewhere and will be leaving shortly. I'm not interested in picking up the pieces of the mess they've made. It just makes me very sad, my team was amazing and deserved better.
Quote by nick as response to Geoff
Probably the great swaths of documentation out there that for most use cases people need not waste time sifting through if a computer can do it faster...
Just because Palestine is weak doesn't mean this conflict isn't a war. You usually don't see wars like this because generally governments know better than to attack states far more powerful than them.
Yev here -> we work pretty well with Movebot (https://community.movebot.io/hc/en-us/articles/360001557095-...) where you can set up a Gdrive to B2 sync/backup. And Rclone can do that as well (https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-integrate-rclon...) so there's a few ways to do this.
fwiw pull requests heads can be accessed locally via

```

${remote}/pull/${ID}/head

```

where remote is the git remote for the repo (probably `origin`) and id is the pull request number. You may need to fetch to get the up to date head and if it still doesn't work, try just fetching the ref directly from the remote.

You can then diff against main/master, try merging into main, etc. which should give you everything you need to code review.

If you want to diff the current branch against main/master at the branch point, you can do:

```

git diff $(git merge-base --fork-point master)

```

That will diff against the point in history where the branch diverged.
> Regular restaurants are simply too inefficient to scale.

Ah, yes, restaurants, that flash-in-the-pan, economically unproven innovation.

Dear God, why does everything have to be a ghoulish march to "scale".
Probably not, but Musk has successfully build the reputation of an entity with quite random behaviour.

Any normal person can be put under pressure given that what you threaten them with is more harmful than anything for retaliation they can dream up.

A sufficient erratic person might retaliate despite suffering themselves. If you have little to gain by your threat and more to loose by the counter attack you can be repelled.

That’s how American badgers win confrontations with grizzly bears.

Let’s assume you go to Musk with a file containing some dirt on him, and tell him :” Switch if your satellites over Tuvalu or the world knows”. Is it so hard to believe the reaction to be a tweet saying:

“Was approach by the Antarctican secret service and told to switch of satellites over Tuvalu, will provide internet over Tuvalu for free!”

My guess is that they either buy him, or the US tells him to do what they want lest he loses government contracts.

All in all this is just a prove that each block needs its own starlink clone, the sky will get crowded.
This sounds lile terrible advice. Not only does it take a long time to get familiar enough with a code base of reasonable complexity to make a contribution of any interest, but not all open source projects have the capacity to review and process external PRs.

You are essentially trying to steal time from people who already invest a lot for the community for your personal profit. This feels parasitic.
Or someone in their late 50s might be ready to retire (or work part-time independently) for the right buyout offer.
"A fire-control radar (FCR) is a radar that is designed specifically to provide information (mainly target azimuth, elevation, range and range rate) to a fire-control system in order to direct weapons such that they hit a target. They are sometimes known as narrow beam radars,[1] targeting radars, or in the UK, gun-laying radars. If the radar is used to guide a missile, it is often known as a target illuminator or illuminator radar."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-control_radar

That was a new one for me.
It's just a weird fleshy body part that I'm not used to seeing and generally don't want to see on other people. Also the feeling of a plasticky "technical" shirt on my own nipples is very unpleasant.
But isn't that the point of Traveller? You don't actually have $10M, you've got $40M debt, and you'd better start making some money to make those payments. And if you get behind, well, maybe take some risk, like smuggling stuff past some pirates for much higher profit, but at much higher risk. Or maybe check out that mysterious derelict ship to see if there's anything worth salvaging that can put you back on track to paying down your ship.

Piracy is a bigger mystery; I guess the only explanation is that they stole those ships, rather than buying them legitimately, because piracy is a poor investment. Or is it? Piracy was rampant in the Caribbean some centuries ago, and it still exists in some places. And privateering could be a profitable business.

One thing that helped, is that neither side really wanted to fight. Often pirates would let the crew live and keep the ship as long as they handed over the cargo without a fight, and that would be a better deal for both sides than a fight to the death where one ship sinks and the other is badly damaged.

But I also feel like the cargo has to be worth more. It's been ages since I've seen those rules, but if the merchant is making $200k on a trip, that doesn't mean the cargo is worth $200k, it means the cargo is worth $200k more at the destination than it was at the source, and the real value could be a lot more.

And if the ship is insured (which means piracy is probably rare enough), it might not even hurt the crew much to surrender their cargo. Except of course that rag-tag band of former military people that's behind on paying down the mortgage on their ship and cutting costs where they can, but somehow also in possession of more weaponry than your average merchant.
> I think it is safe to assume that intelligence can be somewhat influenced by nurture as well.

Sure, but how does this experiment prove that? Polgar proved he can severely improve "chess IQ" if child is trained early, but how do you go from there to general intelligence?
Why did you decide to allow search without a sign in but not for cody?
I also wonder if transporting multiple sandwiches changes the equation, and whether the multiple sandwiches being for one person or multiple people would have an effect.