skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds to me like the edits are accomplished by taking the original text and feeding back through the model, so that the edited tracks contain zero original audio. Of course when your text precisely matches the training material it comes out pretty well, but not perfectly.

In late March 2024, this results in some noticeable distortion. Don't ask me whether you'll be able to notice by, say, September 2024 though.

It probably comes out less jarring than trying to insert the edits overall, but you still really want a clean voice sample going in. For instance, the Pulp Fiction voice had a background music track, and it does interesting things to the resulting voice once it has to start synthesizing novel text. (Second sample in the first table, Irving Ramses.) I wish they'd tacked on a bit more text to that one, I can just barely hear it's doing "weird things" but there's not a lot of time to analyze it before it's over.
Because capitalism will get its greedy claws in there one way or another. It's either this or logging operations.
The first couple I've come up with are training courses at scale, or converting videos with accents you have a hard time understanding to one you can (no one you'll understand better than yourself)
Local prediction-learning in high-dimension space enable neural network to plan
As many others pointed out before, Redis Labs did not create the project,
they started to provide Redis as a hosted solution just like other cloud providers, and with time gained control.

Redis Labs is not the only contributors to the project, Tencent and AWS contribute as well.

For Redis Labs the open source license was a distribution channel
which they benefited tremendously.

I'm not an AWS fanboy but they operate some hosted solution significantly better than
the companies building the products, at least the core offerings, this is what happened with Elastic and MonogDB.

It is Redis Labs prerogative to change the license, but they can also build a product around Redis
that will drive customers to them instead of AWS, an offering that will be hard to replicate.

IMHO making a business that is "reselling" server capacity that was bought from AWS and trying to make a profit, can come back and bite you.
Google has been contracting for the military doing AI for over a decade, I'm pretty sure targeting objects w/ a computer in a combat type situation isn't going to stop anyone. They have aim bots for most FPS games too

Still cool and unique though
Great! Do you mean a screenshot? As far as I know, besides images, you can’t embed html in GitHub readmes.
I posted true, verifiable information about this thread (that a lot of people voted up). I didn't accuse anyone of anything, people are smart, they can make up their own minds.
The edge of the Mandelbrot set expands out to infinity and yet the area within the edge is finite. Who is to say that the universe isn't a hologram on a higher-dimensional Mandelbrot set-like object?
Yes, it does. Let's think step-by-step like LLMs. We have self replicators, the most basic form of life. They start to multiply and conquer the environment. This makes resources scarce and competition ensues. In order to compete, they need to adapt, hence they develop consciousness. Its role is to protect the body, and essentially, itself.

And they don't have to adapt just to the physical world but also the other agents, which further pushes consciousness to become more sophisticated. Wait a few billion years, and here we are.

Why was self replication necessary? To gradually sculpt the consciousness hardware and record what gains it makes, copying the code into the future. The mechanisms in consciousness are the result of many small changes over time, they can't appear suddenly in one single step. Without a copying mechanism (self replication of DNA in our case) it is impossible.
An alternative to filter bubbles is to have an attempt at being neutral like Wikipedia does. It won't please everyone but may be a way to go. I guess neutral in that context means close to the average opinion of an informed human. This seems close to the approach take in practice by ChatGPT, Claude and the like.
Can you kindly boot up a few more universes so we can do replication properly. Also set the speed to 10,000,000,000x I don't have all year.
Sadly true. Though it may be an extremely lucrative year for congressional lobbyists who specialize in maritime law...
I posted this link as a few weeks ago it was learned that 5 patients in UK were infected with Alzheimer's disease, which was previously thought impossible.

Here it's a bit different as researchers demonstrated rapid development of Alzheimer's disease pathology post bone marrow transplantation in an Alzheimer's disease mice model.

The mice would have anyway developed the disease, but much more slowly.

The paper is here:

https://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/fulltext/S2213-6711(2...
Ruby.

I still love the language, and maintain my SSG that was written in Ruby over a decade ago. Shame that it's nearly dead now.
Everybody uses their phone differently of course, but I'd find it very inconvenient having to enable Wi-Fi every time I want to check my location on a map.

I don't think it's too much to ask of a mobile OS to make that safely possible without exposing PII over the air to any advertisers nearby.
Tried it locally - can't get anywhere near the clone quality of the clips on their site.

Not even close. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong...
No it's not, dude.
The claim seemed to me to be that very little money was found compared to the 8 billion dollars. That doesn't seem true.
Applications that are essentially form wizards are a great fit for a document database.

Think application forms etc.
> I think this argument actually resonates with a lot of people--if the truth makes people feel bad or excluded or marginalized, why not just change the truth?

This is the essence of the so-called noble lie. Much has been said about it since the Greeks, but in short, the noble lie deprives individuals of meaningful agency to direct their lives. It traps them into believing myths that result in their subjugation today, and some potential irreversible harm in the future regardless of the perceived short-term benefits that come from self-delusion. That is unless humanity as a whole begins living in indestructible underground pods as drug-addled vegetables.

If we ignore this scenario, and assume people will still interact with each other on some level, the results won't be one where people a long lasting voluntary association on the basis of live and let live. After all, when has that ever happened? Instead, the outcome is another battlefront for competing solipsisms. It's not enough to be as equally wrong as everyone else. Consciously or unconsciously, one comes to uphold a contradiction: you must be the "right" kind of wrong to avoid becoming a scapegoat or target.

The critical examination and acceptance of reality are important learned skills. They allows us to dispel such irrationalities. A mere absence of overt conflict between others or between oneself and the laws of nature is not a defense against harm, perceived or real.
Truth isn't what breeds conflict, as the truth doesn't change. Conflict is the negative reaction to an observation, thought, or sensation. It's a product of the human mind. And human beings as a collective are fickle animals.
I wonder if in < 5 years I can make a game with a local LLM + AI TTS to create realistic NPCs. With enough of these tools I think you could make a very cool world-sim type game.
When someone tweets a random paper, it's reaches people who mostly aren't interested, when someone tweets their own paper, it reaches people who followed them, because they are interested in the same topics.
It's fun to think that radio is making a comeback.

You'd think that adding moving pictures would make the experience better but it doesn't seem to be the case.
The essential prediction is that complex things are made by some sort of repeatable assembly process/factory, not by chance (with increased confidence when multiple copies have been seen). There is an idea of an "assembly index" for objects (e.g. molecules) as a measure/bound of how many steps they took to assemble - the level of complexity.

There is also a prediction (or definition?) that things with a high assembly index are produced by some form of life, so if one can measure the assembly index of molecules and find ones of high index/complexity, then this indicates they were created by some form of life, and so this can be used as a test for life without having to make any assumptions of it being like life on earth (and therefore only looking for biosignatures of life we know of).

Assembly theory seems most interesting when applied to molecules, although it's not limited to that in scope. There are constraints on how complex molecules are formed in terms of what reacts with what, as well as some intuitive measure of complexity in terms of their size and variety of components and atomic bonds.

One thing that Lee Cronin has discovered/noted is that mass spectrometry can be used as a crude way to measure complexity of molecules, and hence give an idea of their "assembly index", since different chemical bonds have different fingerprints in terms of how they absorb energy (diff. frequencies of UV or IR light absorbed in the mass spec.).

There's a couple of different applications of this use of mass spectroscopy as a proxy for assembly index that Cronin mentions in his interview with Lex Fridman, which do seem to provide some proof of it's predictions of high assembly index being an indicator of life, and relative assembly index and indicator of which came first.

1) NASA, wanting Cronin to prove the value of this as a potential life-detector, gave him a variety of unlabeled organic and inorganic samples, and Cronin was able to classify them all correctly based just on their mass spec. signatures.

2) By analyzing a variety of biological samples, again via his mass spec. technique, Cronin was able to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of life in agreement with other ways of doing this. He goes into a little detail on the Lex interview, but it sounds complex and he does not fully describe the technique/analysis.
I don't agree. You're assuming that the universe is a distinct 'something' expanding into a distinct 'nothing'. I disagree, I think that the 'universe' is an arbitrary border we created.

If we were somehow able to accelerate a particle out past the edge of the known universe, now the bubble includes that particle too and essentially we've 'expanded' the universe. In other words, the arbitrary bubble containing things that we know about and consider significant is larger than it was before - because there's something out there we can observe.
Why repeating a word makes it go weird
DeepMind develops SAFE, an AI-based app that can fact-check LLMs
RSA SecurID hardware token reverse engineering (2021)
I don't even think it requires knowledge of HFT to see the flaw in the whole thing.

For example, the whole premise of the book was that banks would see 10,000 shares offered on 5 different exchanges. They'd go to buy 10,000, but only get filled on 2,000, and then cry foul. But people don't normally think like this. For example, if I wanted to sell my bike. I list it on Craigslist, Facebook and Next Door. If someone simultaneously contacted me through all three platforms, no one would expect that I was responsible for selling three bikes. Now, replace "bike" with "2,000 shares."
Local prediction-learning in high-dimensional spaces enables neural networks to plan

Christoph Stöckl; Yukun Yang; Wolfgang Maass;

Nature Communications volume 15, Article number: 2344 (2024)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-46586-0.pdf [PDF]
Independent journalists should go undercover into the conglomerated corporate media world so they can tell us how the propaganda sausage is constructed in practice, and at whose orders.
What did relational databases need from all the document DBs du jour? Broken transactions? Lack of ACID guarantees? Devil-may-care schemas?
There is already a lot of illegal logging in Romania. Timber is a very valuable resource, and capitalism doesn't care if something is legal or not. As long as there are no revenue streams with less risk available, everyone local will have an incentive to exploit this resource.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_mafia
None of those need to track individuals, they're all really just SKU sales metrics dressed up in different ways.
Renault have been at this for quite some time - they've had the Zoe and the Dacia Spring low cost short(-ish) range EV models for years now. Both look cheap though, while the R5 looks genuinely cool and does resemble its namesake.
I completely disagree with this defeatist attitude, and I do not think it is supported by evidence.

Regularly washing your hands reduces spread of the flu by 30%. (Old study, not going to find it.)

I will believe anti-disease spread measures are effective until they are proven otherwise.

> You're usually "infectious" before you're symptomatic

This trait of Covid was what made it unusual. For the flu, the most infectious period days 1-3 with symptoms. ("Period of Contagiousness" in [1]... of course there are exceptions.)

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/keyfacts.htm
Thinking of this kind of "expansion" using an analogy like a balloon does a disservice. When you get to large enough or small enough distances then our intuition often falls down completely.

In this case it's entirely possible for the topology of space to change such that it takes longer to travel from one point to another over time. If you consider a trip from point A to point B in topology A, and then topology A expands during the trip from point A to point B such that new distance is created, then the "distance" you have to travel to get to B is changing because at each moment along the trip you're at a different point.

If you think about it this way, the universe can be both expanding because it takes progressively longer to get from point A to point B, and it can also not be expanding into some "outer" area because there's nothing other than the universe.

It may make more sense to stop thinking in terms of distance and start thinking in terms of time. In that case, when you think of "expansion" what you're really describing is that at a constant speed, the closer you get to B, the more time it takes you to advance toward B. And if you change direction mid-trip to go to C, the "expansion" means that the amount of time required to reach C also increases as time elapses.

It's hard to say what's causing that expansion, but we can measure it by its effects on light traveling the same distance.
I think thats only a subset of people offshoring money. Many more who might have more means and therefore more pressure to offshore that means would probably opt to offshore that money by buying a vancouver condo they will never see.
Emancipation of women and free education for girls worldwide. Raising the standard of living in poor countries.

This alone would massively impact population growth.
> The Clinton admin knows that this kind of headline appeals to their political support base.

You're three decades too late!
obligatory reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
And your daily 15 minute conversation is nothing compared to the pressure they’ll feel from peers and the addictive loops built into the apps.

One child has been good and deleted one app, but slowly time spent in the other app has been increasing. She’s trying to fight it, but the addictive loops are too strong.

While the other child simply has no self discipline in this area and would spend all day on the screen if allowed.

These apps are too powerful to leave it up to ‘personal responsibility’.
How does this reduce the number of parts on a car?

Like, okay, you currently build a vehicle by dragging a hulk down a moving line.

This says leave the hulk in one place, and bring the parts to it.

It on its face appears to be less efficient.
You don't have to use blockchain, you can use payment systems like Arbonum.
One of the greats.
Did this just obliterate ElevenLabs?
The "cosmic ladder" supposition's underpinnings are a bit shaky anyway. Calculating distance and age by examining ever distant Cepheid variable stars is prone to cumulative error. But it's the best estimate we've got.
Could the brokered CDs be a retail purchase?
We already have ways to preserve the voices of people past their lives. Cloning their voices and writing things in their names is not only wrong but deceptive.
You'll have to perform some experiment to earn that, sorry. Not even Einstein could win a Nobel just by having a good idea.
The existence of Photoshop doesn't mean that you can put Kobe Bryant on a Wheaties box without paying him. There's no reason that a voice talent's voice can't be subject to the same infringement protections as a screen actor's or athlete's likeness.
Duke Nukem Forever isn't vaporware though. I guess both of us are old and remember when it was the posterchild for vaporware for decades but it was released and now nobody refers to it as vaporware.
True enough, and the solutions for lighter-weight schema changes have evolved and weren't always so good, but early stage startups often don't really have the sort of data-weight issues that make this hard, unless they're starting with large data sets already. Even at the scale of small hundreds of millions of rows per table (like the company I'm in charge of the database for) it's not much of an issue.

I had to look it up, apparently adding a column with a non-null default was "fixed" in PG 11 (2018), but with a null default it had been fast for a while:

https://www.depesz.com/2018/04/04/waiting-for-postgresql-11-...
Rookie move. My prayers with the sun are entangled.
It's generally faster to get started with Mongo.

If you're talking about a startup, you might not even get to the let's do it over stage. You might have six months to just hack something out so you can raise more funding, and in that case Mongo is a great choice.

The needs of your business might also just evolve over time.
In addition to changes in ephemeral and persistent memory, the other big difference between now and nosql’s heyday is improvements in distributed relational transactional databases (newsql).

We haven’t exactly circled the square on CAP but we’ve certainly bent it.
Thanks, a skim says it's a pretty good overview of where the lab folks are at. I'll read it more closely later.

Science moves very slowly and very fast in this area, slowly with regards to psychoactives due to stuff like politicians, fast in neuroscience where new technology has allowed leaps for decades, since the eighties or so.
As a counterexample, Azure Cosmos or Amazon DynamoDb are marketed as specific solutions for specific problems. Other RDBMS like SqlServer or Postgres are marketed as general purpose solutions because they are in fact general purpose solutions. Mongodb, on the other hand, is a specialized "document database" marketed as a replacement for relational databases.
"The Law of Fives states simply that: ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE BY OR MULTIPLES OF FIVE, OR ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY APPROPRIATE TO FIVE.
The Law of Fives is never wrong. In the Erisian Archives is an old memo from Omar to Mal-2: 'I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look.'" - Principia Discordia, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Principia_Discordia#THE_LAW_OF...
Would they still be in business today if they didn't have that cash on hand, though?
> I kinda wish computer systems were more involved in planes.

> Computer systems have controlled the movement of elevators for 50+ years. They stop the elevator moving when the door isn't shut very effectively. They have certainly saved more lives compared to even a well trained elevator operator.

I thought you were talking about the elevators on a plane and was trying to figure out why whether a plane door was closed mattered for controlling the elevators.
Thanks!

It has been working very well. Two regrets:

1. Not rebasing our fork of QEMU for years has put us in a bad spot. But just today a member of our team managed to lift stuff with the latest QEMU. And he has also been able to lift Qualcomm Hexagon code, for which we helped to add support in QEMU. Eventually we'll be the first proper Hexagon decompiler :)

2. Focusing too much on QEMU led our frontend to be tightly coupled with QEMU. It will now take some effort to enable support for additional frontends, non-QEMU based. But not impossible: our idea is to let user add support for a new architecture by defining, in C, a struct for the CPU state and a bunch of functions acting on it. That's it. No need to learn any internal representation.

tl;dr QEMU was a great choice, it worked so well that we didn't work on that part of the codebase for too much time and now there's some technical debt there. But we're addressing it.
Feel free to read the other comments you ignored.
to answer my own question, i didn't realize tencent had their own cloud offering with all the major software available a service, guess they/him just do general development and bug fixes.
That’s not true.

I’m tempted to argue with you, but the facts so clearly speak for themselves that I’ll just link to the Wikipedia article so that others can see what really happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Medical_Progress

> CMP established a fake company to pose as buyers of fetal tissue and secretly recorded Planned Parenthood officials during meetings.

> The CMP released edited videos of the discussions which made it appear as if Planned Parenthood intended to profit from fetal tissue, although the full unedited videos instead showed that Planned Parenthood requested only a fee to cover costs without any profit.

> [...]

> [In] March 2017 Daleiden and the second CMP employee were charged with 15 felonies in California—one for each of the people whom they had filmed without consent, and one for criminal conspiracy to invade privacy. Planned Parenthood also sued the CMP and Daleiden for fraud and invasion of privacy, asserting that the videos were deceptively edited to create a false impression of wrongdoing.

I’d like to avoid an argument thread, so please go improve the Wikipedia article if you think something is inaccurate.
So, I'm not surprised the site would get slow after hitting the front page, but why is the character creation form taking minutes to update? There's a text box - it should take less than 1 second for me to click the text box and type a word, even if submission takes a while. What is going on there?
Julia[0] shares features with Dylan[1] which was an attempt at designing a Lisp-like language without s-expressions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)#L...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)
I haven't been to Yellowstone so maybe this doesn't make sense, but is there a reason they couldn't implement the same system as Zion? During most of the year the main road in Zion is closed to private cars, and everyone uses the (very good) shuttle system, or bikes or walks.
Deploying VLLM in Production
archive.ph - https://archive.ph/ugUdY
Once you set that up as crypto, thats it, thats the price. With the present model ad agencies can play all sorts of games with this price, inflating or deflating it to suit immediate business needs. Its a whole meta that will poof into smoke. So unless the new crypto meta captures the benefits to ad agencies the current “estimate” model of pricing has, it won’t see daylight.
Any monitor and keyboard will work, however Apple keyboards have a couple extra keys not present on Windows keyboards so require some key remapping to allow access to all typical shortcut key combinations.
Serious question: is this a healthy way to treat ancestors? In the future will we just keep grandma around as an AI version of her middle aged self when she passes?