skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad that it doesn't. A lot of us use these voices as an accessibility tool in our screen readers. They need to perform well and be understandable at very high rate, and they need to be very responsive. ESpeak is one of the most responsive speech synths out there, so for a screen reader this means key press to speech output is extremely low. Adding AI would just make this a lot slower and unpredictable, and unusable for daily work, at least right now.
This is anecdotal, but part of what makes a synth work well at high speech rates is predictability. I know how a speech synth is going to say something exactly. This let's me put more focus on the thing I'm doing rather than trying to decipher what the synth is saying. Neural TTS always has differences in how they say a thing, and at times, those differences can be large enough to trip me up. Then I'm focusing on the speech again and not what I'm doing. But ESpeak is very predictable, so I can let my brain do the pattern matching and focus actively on something else.
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last I heard it was not going in Tesla's favor.

It's definitely going in Tesla's favour. They've found work-arounds for most of the barriers the unions have thrown up and signed deals with various small non-union shops for a lot of what their union workers used to do. Now it's basically just a war of attrition where it comes down to if Tesla can live with the inconveniences longer than the union can keep their workers on strike, and by all accounts it looks like the union is blinking first. In fact several of the striking workers have apparently left the union and gone back to work, and the union just the other day allowed some of their striking workers to go back to work at Tesla without getting any concessions from Tesla.

It turns out that simply refusing to engage with the union at any level and on any points, and making it clear that you literally never will, is a surprisingly effective strategy.
Fast food operators rushing to use AI in the wake of minimum wage hikes
Not everyone has a daddy who owns slaves who can give them hundreds of millions to start their companies btw
I think that you are missing how credibility and propaganda intertwine. The BBC gives you accurate reports on Indonesia and Chile to build credibility for when they want to lie to the benefit of Britain. Aljazeera give accurate reports on Boeing and Airbus to build credibility for when they want to lie to the benefit of Qatar. NPR give accurate reports on Angola and Bangladesh to build credibility for when they want to lie to the benefit of the USA.

One navigates an adversarial information environment by harvesting the free truth provided by those seeking to build credibility. Then one tries to avoid the flames when the same organisations burn their credibility to boost their funders and owners.
I would use one of the many CRM systems already available, and adapt my business to it. Getting sidetracked with custom software development when that's not the core business and source of revenue is high risk and low payoff.
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Yeah, i think it is a totally reasonable thing to do, if you're a day trader or a short term investor, or you invest in "growth" companies

_I_ also think it shouldn't matter in non-tech, non-growth companies. If Nestlé or lactalis crash (lactalis might be a bad example, i don't think they have public investors), i doubt Cargill or Heins will take the hit better. If you're a long-term investor (and let's be honest, most of us are) and mostly count on dividends to "make" money, you should be better off investing in old brand without paying the US premium.
Fun that the org chart posted says "confidential" at the top. I'd like to see that org chart compared to other news organizations, or maybe compared to the structure The Intercept had in it's first decade. It seems still about two-thirds weighted towards journalists, especially without knowing how many freelancers they hire. Is it that crazy a structure? (I mean... you're gonna need HR, digital team, and yeah, with a company like that you will definitely need lawyers...)
> not always we read things which has a direct impact on what we do. Sometimes ideas in one area can spark solutions for other problems.

Of course, but this effect is unpredictable. You could get an idea while reading some fiction, because the plot sparked some chain reaction of associations in your brain. But if it will happens or not is not predictable on basis of an abstract of an article. GP clearly talks about something else.

> military equipment not getting inspiration from chameleons.

A good example. If your goal is to fight the enemies it will be counterproductive to seeks for black swans by finding and studying new life forms. But you can still do it in a "fishing mode", just looking for something that seems interesting.

Science is living on a government support exactly because it is unpredictable. It can sometimes discover electricity, but most of the efforts of scientists gives little to no useful knowledge. One cannot know a priori if their research will have a big impact or not.
With which of these 2 software can you do the "zoom in", "move mouse cursor", and "zoom out"?
Lord, are we just doing the Taiwanese version of "Gung Ho" again? How soon until some anti-Asian rhetoric starts spilling out of Arizona...
I put in an application a a week or two back but haven't heard from you folks.

Do you typically respond to candidates with an "interested or not interested" email?
Clearly my double meaning was missed.
Well shit.

I guess I have some work to do instead of just bellyache about the good old days, then.

Thanks! (I think.)
I tend to use TechSmith Camtasia. It will do all that stuff, and also lets you add all kinds of active overlays and effects.

ScreenFlow is also good.

But it's still a lot of hard work, making these. I suspect that AI tools can help, but, in the aggregate, it still needs a skilled eye and hand, to make stuff look good, and not obnoxious.
IQ tests itself are age relative. The tests already take this into account, that's why your IQ is relative to people in the same age bracket. Basically, when you say "my IQ is 100", it's means that you are in the 50th percentile of the peers of the same age. It doesn't have any "absolue" value, and it shifts with the years (100 IQ 50 years ago is not the same as 100 IQ now)
This, too, now harvests info.

Well, I'm cancelling my services with them. This is disgusting.

Won't do much but make me feel better, and save money. With the internet I never use my phone. Time to deal with the liability I guess.
Or you can be a 74 year old woman spending three days in jail for being suspected of stealing tofu...

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240417/p2a/00m/0na/00...
If you have public GH contributions you could show examples of PRs with stories told by commits and my anecdata would be invalid :)
Some questions that aren't in the FAQ:

- What is the license? Apparently Apache 2.0 [1].

- What is the minimum web bundle size and startup time?

- On desktop, what is the minimum RAM usage? Binary size?

- Is there a WYSIWYG editor?

[1] https://github.com/unoplatform/uno/blob/master/License.md
Wish I could say it was deliberate. But I also like it now more.
> There's like 3 components involved in making setuid safe (the kernel, the dynamic loader, and your exec), and at least one of them wasn't doing its job correctly (the dynamic loader). IPC by definition involves a superset of these components

Incorrect, because nowhere in the IPC dance are these components exposed to the same untrusted environment as they are with sudo.
Would have thought the article would have included a discussion of "life experience" as a factor in intelligent decision making, but no, apparently not.
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Because attention is all you need.

I.E. the KV cache is 'just' a time saving measure because an LLM goes back and calculates those values anyway. (Which is why per-token compute increases exponentially otherwise)

You're not wrong that you could make an LLM more stateful. There are plenty of ideas for that but it would

a) be far more compute intensive to train and run (especially train)

B)be susceptible to all of the issues that RNNs have.

C) most importantly, it would almost certainly just converge at scale with transformers. Labs run small scale, internal tests of architectures all the time and most of them basically come to this conclusion and abandon it
> For example, an average observation, my father on his late 70s beat people in their 20s in doing mental math not because he is a genius because his generation had a better general education in math than the people at 20s.

You don't need a 'better general education in math' to be good at mental arithmetic. In fact general education in math' is pretty much irrelevant to mental arithmetic.

To be better at mental arithmetic, you need to learn and practice mental arithmetic.

I am willing to bet your father did exactly that when he was younger, compared to today's 20 year olds?

Your father might or might not also have had a great general math education. But that's pretty much irrelevant for the topic at hand.

(I'm a mathematician by training, so I have a pretty good 'general education in math'. But how good my mental arithmetic is depends very heavily on whether I've recently had reason to practice.

I was my best at mental arithmetic in about 7th and 8th grade. 7th grade is when calculators are first allowed in schools where and when I grew up. If, like me, you keep forgetting your calculator at home, that means all of a sudden your mental arithmetic gets a lot more of a workout than before.)
Yes, though details depend on the exact test and how it's normalised.
If you want encryption enough, you can probably pay for a three-person business plan and just not set up the extra users. Looks like it would double your monthly subscription over the most expensive personal plan.
I think the downvotes are coming in because you are carrying out a fundamentally different argument.

The article argues that people used to be more intellecutally capable when they were younger and it diminished with age.

You are arguing that each generation used to be more intellectually capable than the one before, and that that is diminishing.

I’m not trying to accuse you of anything, but it seems like you didn’t actually read the article you were commenting on. Is that possible?
Just to confirm: this paper focuses on the 'awakeness' aspect of consciousness, not self-awareness, correct?

My science literacy is lacking.

Personally, I find self-awareness the more fascinating area of study, but any brain research pretty fascinating.
As far as I know, database often does query caching. So it doesn't have to recompile the query all the time.

On the other hand, query plan may depend on the specific parameters - the engine may produce a different plan for a query for users with deleted=true (index scan) and for deleted=false (99% of users are not deleted, not worth it to use index).
This is easily solved by adding the well known quote (Sagan):

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

An older quote, addressing this case more directly would be (Eddington):

"The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations — then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation — *well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes.* But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
…and they’re okay with it, because historically GUIs are written in platform native languages.
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It's quite impressive how many more lines of javascript and shading is required to show this in a browser, than it requires to bring a window on the screen and show a texture on it using plain C.
The carousel on top does some weird flashing on Android Chrome.
Meanwhile, for the common person, they harvest info. Very open. Laugh track.
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Yes. In UK. The cheaper and newer ISPs all do it. You only get public IPv6.
Well, I'm actually an actual Japanese person too. As for using GPT 3.5, I just never paid for GPTs, sorry for that. The deltas just look marginal to me, I know everything on the Internet(/s) and I can read/write basic English, and I'm a bit of an crazy paranoid type too, so value of getting hallucinated outputs and having it critique my writing through the tapped GPT web interface isn't that high.

If you could read all of these outputs and compare against each others(thanks glandium-san and sorry for bothering), you'll just see all of it has pros and cons and that they compare. They're not worlds apart, in fact I think GT did best in this instance probably from massive accumulation of edge case fixes or some other non-scaling improvements behind it.

Like I said, it's an interesting phenomenon - it could be UX advantages, or friendlier tones, latency, personally I think it's dataset imbalance or could be numerous other things. But when it comes to actual literal translation performance, um, it's just an MT.
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In the same vein, sorry it doesn't work for you, but that has not been the prevailing experience ;)

(Same goes for "unpolished and flaky".)
Yes, solving Bloom's 2 sigma problem would be huge.

> But the education system still sucks, especially in many of the more underfunded public schools

The problems depend on where you live. (And also whether schools are underfunded or not, and what that even means.)

> PS: gotta love the massive wave of silent downvotes. Why? Not enough substance? Not enough effort spent solving a problem or documenting it? Something you don’t like? Speak up! Ahh nevermind.

It's best to ignore those.
Note that rustc will not emit this instruction by default, to support older CPUs. Without `target-cpu=haswell` or similar, the operation will be quite slow, but still O(1) of course.
Anyone interested in formants and speech synthesis should have a look at Praat[0], a marvellous piece of free software that can do all kinds of speech analysis, synthesis, and manipulation.

https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
Experience is what gets you ahead in life. Smarts help, but experience outweighs intelligence in the most important life decisions.

Ask yourself, do you want a smart 25 year old running the White House? Or an experienced 50 year old?
Well, from my point of view, the war just makes all of this only worse. I imagine going to the Crimea for a family vacation isn't a great prospect with the risk of bombardment or even a takeover.

But that's probably something where we differ. I view this Russian attitude as "we can't live as well as we'd like to so we'll at least make other suffer too". This is completely self-inflicted.
How can it be a vaccine if he already had Glioblastoma? Surely it's a treatment not a vaccine?
Sadly consensus != fact

For example: "Which country contributed the most to the demise of Germany during ww2 ?"

https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-f7f98c319f4d9ace2079a...
I got similar results, and that would be ok if it didn't sound so confident with the guess.
I've never seen an IQ test where life experience mattered.
I don't have a Twitter account, where are the responses?
Certainly! Fundamentally, ntfy.sh and pushbeacon.com do the same thing. However, there are a few differences:

- as you mentioned, the pricing: we offer lifetime pricing, which will evolve. The current price is for the early stages because the project is still in its initial phase.

- regarding notifications, we don't store anything at all, unlike ntfy. This can be a strength or a weakness; if you need to have many different channels and keep track of them, ntfy is clearly a better alternative.

- PushBeacon was designed to be very simple to use. Generate a code, enter it into the application, add an API key, and that’s it. You can send notifications in less than two minutes.

We don't offer as many features as ntfy, but simplicity is the heart of the project.
Doxxing for dough. The ethics committee is out to lunch.

See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233248
The org chart for the Intercept doesn't look "top heavy", in fact it looks pretty well run. It's a news outlet that sometimes publishes controversial stories that are disliked by various governments, you're probably going to be happy there's a legal team backing you up and a tech team keeping the site up?
At this point anyone younger than 60 would have my blessing :)
Pretty cool. Correctly identifies different islands in the Galapagos based on the ground and the plants.
Opening a supercharger location up so that it can be used by all vehicles is probably just a software switch / config file change in Europe. Tesla doesn't need hundreds of staff to do it!
I think it might be good for you to reflect on what this "reply guy" thing actually means, and why it is (IMO) a good idea to use it to judge your comments before replying to someone, if you care in any way about empathic online discourse.

For example, the artist: their livelihood is directly threatened by AI, if not now then probably in the near future, and they are responding by posting about their fear. It's transferred into enragement because that's what gets them engagement and support, but underlying that is fear. If they were to directly post about their fear there's a good chance they'd be mocked even worse so don't judge them too harshly for this.

Then along comes someone who has no skin in the game, except that they think AI is cool and something they want to be seen as an expert in. They feel it's necessary to point out to the person who is fearing for their way of life how WRONG they are. When all that person wants and needs is support.

In these types of situations, when you don't directly have skin in the game, and you don't have any support to offer, it's almost always better not to reply. Make your own post proving how right you are (without linking/tooting/screen-shotting or in any way referencing the other post), and let that other person get the social connections and support that they need. Otherwise, you are Reply Guy!
I'm quite surprised to find this on HN, synthesizers like espeak and eloquence (ibm TTS) have fallen out of favor these days. I'm a blind person who uses espeak on all my devices except my macbook, where unfortunately I can't install the speech synthesizer because it apparently only supports MacOS 13 (installing the library itself works fine though).

Most times I try to use modern "natural-sounding" voices they take a while to initialize, and when you speed them at a certain point the words mix together into meaningless noise, while at the same rate eloquence and espeak would handle just great, well, for me at least.

I was thinking about this a few days back while I was trying out piper-tts [0] how supposedly "more advanced" synthesizers powered by AI use up more ram and cpu and disk space to deliver a voice which doesn't sound much better than something like RH voice and gets things like inflection wrong. And that's the english voice, the voice for my language (serbian) makes espeak sound human and according to piper-tts it's "medium".

Funny story about synthesizers taking a while to initialize, there's a local IT company here that specializes in speech synthesis and their voices take so long to load they had to say "<company> Mary is initializing..." whenever you start your screen reader or such. Was annoying but in a fun way. Their newer Serbian voices also have this "feature" where they try to pronounce some english words it comes upon properly. It also has another "feature" where it tries to pronounce words right that were spelled without accent marks or such, and like with most of these kinds of "features" they combine badly and hilariously. For example if you asked them to pronounce "topic" it would pronounce it as "topich, which was fun while browsing forums or such.

[0] https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
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Regardless of commentary, it's free publicity. As for

>Giving up LTE

that's very heavily personality dependent, if I didn't want to be bothered by anyone I'd turn off my phone and leave it at home, limiting myself on other days where I do want to access internet from anywhere and be bothered by internet, it would be highly inconvenient for me.
only if you look past the uncount(ed|able) lines of plain C it would take to make it usable on any device, by everyone with a web browser
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I work for the US government. The trainings are real. I don’t remember this exact verbiage but similar for sure. The grounds of harassment basically constitute whatever the claimed victim feels to be so. For example, (and this is from training), saying goodmorning, commenting on hair, not saying good morning or not repeating back, and more. I just skip through but it’s an in depth asynchronous training supplemented by multiple live events.

Edit: and lest I be accused of harassment, good morning or -silence- to everyone according to your preference!

Ps Also our calendars are provided by the equal employment opportunity office and have helpful quotes each month on what is harassment and what is going to happen to you if you do it!

PPS in addition to multiple asynchronous trainings and live events and calendars it’s also plastered all over the buildings, bathrooms, and break rooms.

PPPS we also get emails regularly from top level secretaries and directors and I think there may be dedicated months as well to increase awareness.

Final: I sound bitter here but I agree harassment is bad but the level of psychological programming makes my stomach turn. Anyways yes it’s real.
The earth.com article mentions 120 light-years from Earth.
25? No. 35? Definitely. Somewhere around 60 should be the maximum age to run.