jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's Mozilla TTS https://github.com/mozilla/TTS

Here's a sample from a TTS model + vocoder I released for it. I've no wish to deter the motivated, but it'd take a bit of figuring out how to set things up and you'd need to read the docs and code to get oriented :)

https://m.soundcloud.com/user-726556259/sherlock-wavegrad-sa...

Links to the models are here:
https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/creating-a-github-page-for-h...

Is originally trained on two novels read by the same narrator on LibriVox (ie in public domain)
Sure. He often benchmark some small C++ code on his "laptop" CPU (which one exactly? microarchs matter!) and then committing classic microbenchmarking pitfalls such as:

- benchmarking something small enough to inspect machine code, but not inspecting machine code

- not plotting distribution, average, variance etc

- no attention paid to CPU frequency governor settings

- measuring too short a run

- measuring too small a dataset that it fits entirely in L1
They were listed previously; https://i.ibb.co/163wLZw/wfm.png
Near as I can tell things are pretty wide open here in Iowa. We even had the honor of getting an Atlantic scare article of "This is what happens when government does nothing"

Turns out what happens when government does nothing is things are perfectly fine.
I guess advocating the violent overthrow of the government was the last straw.
Not as bad as Steemit though
Some cases of heart disease are caused by contagious viral or bacterial infections, such as influenza.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533457/
Online arguments tend to be long, degenerate, and quickly form opposing camps that will war in other threads too. I think that's (informally) very well known. And a down-vote is a potentially significant indicator that an argument is taking place.

But I think the authors are a little naive if they think the site-owners are not aware (and in some cases, counting on) this.

For many sites, it seems to be the arguments and battles that drive activity. As if to the site-owner, a (moderate) ding-dong battle is "increased engagement, even from the people who disliked the content" rather than something they necessarily want to stamp out.
I'm in Seattle and I'd like to know more about what you're doing.
You do wear clothes everyday, but hopefully not the same ones everyday. If I only had one set of clothes to wear for 2 years you better believe I'll be willing to spend over $1000 for it.

The analogy just doesn't work, over a 2 year period the difference between $500 and $1000 isn't much. If in the US, the cost is usually hidden in the monthly cost. So the visible cost is $200, and even the free phones over same time period isn't much of a difference in price.

On the subject of spending, put money into your bed, you spend a lot of time there, well worth a few thousand.
Mainly from talking to colleagues, I haven't found a particularly accurate site.

Salaryfairy.com was the heart of a Show HN[1] and they made some great claims but I've found it very low in my area (Boston). I know I'm underpaid (intentionally, I work at a place not known for high salaries, but I like it) and yet I've yet to see someone's profile where the crowd wisdom was higher than my salary. Furthermore both the site's and the crowd's estimate for me were well below my salary

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7449356
The point of diversification is that no one gets shafted because lots of people are left holding the the "baby" together. It does not reduce the total amount of loss but it trades a 1% chance of losing $50 with a 50% chance of losing $1.
Apple and Google have had voice recognition for years.

Pre-authentication seems insecure.

The Fire Phone is priced high with the assumption that the price will be lower with carrier contracts, a la iPhone and Galaxy. Although, if they get the price down, it could become the "free" phone like old iPhones are.
One thing is is fundamentally different than your examples: the money is coming from advertisers, not the users.
That's interesting. Every single one of my customers has a terrible website. Every. Single. One.

We're looking to expand into a subscription service that provides a CMS w/ dog-centric themes to our customers.

Shoot me an email, we should talk. Email address on my profile.
I doubt it was any one thing, but it might have been the final straw. Microsoft has suffered embarrassing setbacks on its entire line of products and services, except Office. And with the PC market dwindling and Surface DOA, they're having to put Office in new places like iOS which they wouldn't have seriously considered a few years ago.
iFart? My category is called "We Think Too Hard"
People are allowed to have independent thoughts outside of their identity you know? If you don't want to wake up one day with government agency deciding what truth is, then a lot of unsavory stuff becomes ok-ish even if you dislike it personally.
Only if you dont factor in the cost of the xbox. If buying from scratch stadia would be cheaper.
I know at least one person of color who doesn't consider racism a problem because it doesn't personally affect them in their day-to-day life.
It’s the lovechild of a Honda Ridgeline with a Pontiac Aztec. Vanity truck for old guys.

You can’t use it as a work truck as when you damage something, the part will take 3 years to arrive.
I almost laughed out loud, I love the cybertruck but man it's so blatant. It feels like someone just blurted out a hilarious joke and you want to laugh out loud but you kind of glance at those next to you to see "is this ok with you people"?
Or you just burn the trash directly.
Cooler Twitter. Enterprise Twitter. Better Personal Twitter management.

"What possibly" and "conceivably" assumes that the current form of Twitter is all it could ever be.

If they're smart enough to do Twitter, they're smart enough to enhance Twitter in a way that people will pay for it.

Keep in mind, this is all based on the linked article's characterization of Twitter as an ad company, and what they might do instead.
Thanks alnayyir - I will gladly take the constructive criticism.

I am looking for someone with talent and experience and I will pay up for it - I'd rather not put a specific $ amount on it.

If someone is going to get put off by the choices of the words execute or engage then we are probably not a good match.

I am looking for a serious developer with experience in the category of video chat who finds the idea of spending several weeks on a project and getting paid well for it appealing.

I will reiterate that I would love to find a cofounder or someone who may be interested in having on-going involvement in the Company.

Thanks again.
In the beginning was the word, says John. It probably looked something like this.
I think data portability is going to be another victim of the tragedy of the commons. I'm sure that most people in the area of cloud computing would agree that more portability would be a good thing for the market. But when you get down to it, I don't think the risks of allowing all of your customers to switch away from you at will outweigh the benefits.

And let's face it, avoiding lock in just isn't as high a priority as some others to technology companies. If it were, SQL databases would have been dead a long time ago.
Some great points.

I'm trying to think how i can edit the comment, while preserving my main point (that there was something distinct there, but it seemed less like drunk/under the influence, and more like ________).
If the product works really, really well and users end up waking up at the optimal time the vast majority of the time, that may (or may not) be different from the conditions in which we evolved and the various adaptations we've made since then that are better studied. It could have some sort of adverse effect. It's very unlikely.
Yeah, there's a few gotchas to watch for with binding that depend on the datatype. Flex 4 has only improved things, though it did take a bit to adjust. I really like the {syntax} though, and apart from the binding issues with XML I really like working with it in Flex but hate it in JS. Flex makes the XML vs. JSON distinctions almost go away for me.

(tldr: yeah, async stuff in Flex can sometimes be really verbose.)
I don't find the async stuff too bad, though it all can horribly be abused. The project I inherited used Cairngorm with SOAP services and had a separate Event, Command, and Delegate class for every web service! Some generalizations have made that into only one Command class per web service that's just responsible for handling the specifics, though I also have a general Command class that will offload the response to a callback function the requester can provide. I always liked Ext's (er, Sencha's...) Ext.Ajax.request() and jQuery's offering.
I'd like to live in a world where companies are free to offer the products they choose to offer under the terms they choose to offer them under. Companies should not have to incur a technological arms race simply to ship a "no bots allowed" game". I also feel like that's a point that startup entrepreneurs should sympathize with.

I disagree, I think this is something entrepreneurs should be willing to understand is for the good of innovation. With all the attempts to weaken first sale doctrine it's likely if we followed these rules libraries wouldn't exist anymore, to say nothing of gamefly, netflix and used record stores. The existence of cydia gives developers and users an alternative, drives innovation and keeps pressure on apple. What if vmware had been prevented from running windows as a linux guest or linux as a windows guest years ago because microsoft didn't approve? Would we have ever seen server virtualization take off? The cloud? Game modifications, often unapproved, have gone on to launch plenty of new studios.

There's no way to know if great advances in real world AI applications won't end up emerging from some scrappy game bot company.

I think it's clear that restrictive license terms if left unchecked can stifle innovation and are bad for entrepreneurs and startups.
Isn't there a no-novelty account rule written somewhere?
What is the confidence interval for the size of the effect that wakemate produces on percieved grogginess vs waking without wakemate?

What is the size of the effect in the research?
Drop the "Like". Just "A Little", it's clean.
O NOES
How about even just a link to your main site at the top of your blog?
That would require you know which C++ compiler and which exact version the code was compiled with. Your decompiler would also need to be built for this specific version of the C++ compiler to allow for round tripping. After you have done that, the risk of the patch being unnecessarily large still exists and now you have to mess around with the source code hoping you find a way to rewrite it such that only one byte has changed. That's a lot of effort compared to just changing the instructions directly which for an inexperienced engineer merely requires frequent lookup of a reference sheet.

There is absolutely no need to do any of that, even in cases where you write a lot of new code yourself. 99% of the time it is enough to find the code location, insert a call to a DLL (which can be created in any language of your choice) you injected and be done with it.
Hmm, who knew that if I had just paid good enough attention at my team's standups, I could have gotten a publishable paper out of it.

This isn't sarcasm. I'm actually glad someone did it.
Are you using "maintenance" in this context to refer to repairing parts that might wear out or break, such as perhaps a suspension component, or a door handle breaking?

Because I'm only considering "regular" maintenance that most people do every X miles or Y years. For a Tesla, the only "regular" maintenance is cabin filters, tire-related maintenance, brake fluid, an A/C. The 12V battery also needs replacement periodically.

I strictly use the word "maintenance" to refer to preventative care and replacement of consumables such as tires, filters, and washer fluid. Repairs of failed parts are something else.
> - Google analytics is definitely not a product analytics tool.

Can you elaborate on this please? I'm really not used to analytics tools, but GA does look like one to me.
> Apparently the Irish Data Protection Commission is going to bust Facebook.

I doubt it. They spent 7 years on a case against Facebook doing the absolute minimum necessary. NOYB are suing the Irish DPC in an attempt to get them to do their jobs. It’s a mess. Irish DPC apparently only investigated 83 GDPR cases and over 4000 “concluded without inquiry”. They only made 11 data protection decisions last year, compared to 600 by Spain whose data protection branch has a similar budget.

https://noyb.eu/en/dpc-cancels-parliamentary-hearing-eu-us-t...

https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2021-03/Letter%20Max%20S...

https://noyb.eu/en/facebooks-gdpr-bypass-reaches-austrian-su...
It's the "black water" pipe in the diagram.
I am a co-author of the site.
We are already aware of your concerns about giving out your phone number. The source code is free and reviewable on Github. We know it's not possible to verify what's running on a server but we hope it adds a level of trust.
We are currently hashing all phone numbers so we don't have to deal with them anymore. We will keep you updated.
You could steal airline magazines. It's a bit less globalist and more elderly (there's a lot of ads for golf course retirement communities) but still pretty upwardly mobile.
When are countries & users going to fine FB for leaking data?

It's such a boring dystopia that the only response they have is "it's from 2019", like WTH?
I did this. Had a header template, a footer template and a bunch of pages. My build script was basically ‘for page in pages cat header page footer > ouput’. Worked fine for its purpose (which was limited in scope).
Free upgrades can still come at a cost.

Multi-monitor full-screen was broken from 10.7 through 10.8. Thousands complained, Apple claimed it a feature.

Not fixable, not tweakable, not reversible. 10.6 or one full-screen monitor at a time.

Fuck off, Apple.
I play Steam games on my 4 years old machine(ati graphics card, Athlon processor) on Ubuntu 14.04. The only issue i had was font disappearing in Civ and Democracy 3. Just waiting for Skylake to upgrade.
People may have a vision of a solitary genius, but that's not how many successful artists work. Going back at least as far as the Renaissance many artists were managing studios of other painters, sculptors, etc who would produce the actual work. A lot of the most famous artists today still work that way. Successful artists are, and have been for centuries, creative entrepreneurs.
A table of symbols is extremely helpful. I hate reading a paper where the author defines things when they first appear. If you missed that bit, you have to spend minutes searching for it, and forget what you were thinking about. It's worse in a text book where you have to search many chapters to find where it was introduced. Complete waste of time.

I don't think there can be "palletes" to choose from, because interdisciplinary work will find there's no pallete that fits.
The 90 day exercise window for stock options really catches some non-finance employees off guard. They don't realize the high amount of tax and investment that has to be made for illiquid shares (which are still pretty risky for most start ups). That being said, there are a few options that I feel more people should know about including the Employee Stock Option Fund (http://esofund.com/). If you fall within the 90 day period, I would highly suggest sending them an email. They are able to produce the money very quickly and will do their best to help you.
I use Tweetdeck exclusively on PC and Android. Love it. And speaking of filters, I wish you could set global filters across all columns.
Yeah, I notice

su -;rm -rf /

doesn't delete all the data from Google's datacenters...

(It was worth a try, right?)
And FireBug add-ons, like FlashConsole, make FF indispensable for me.
The difference being that you can change your facebook password. It's not that easy with dropbox.
Is chatting with friends for dullards?

I dare say that Facebook has an extremely lose definition of a friend.

I can count my real friends on one hand and don't think that's low.
I am not a lawyer, but the question doesn't require a "legal strategy" so much as it requires an agreement between you and your employer that your side project does not pose a problem. Why don't you talk to your employer, tell them that you working on your own time provides immense value to them ("Training that you don't have to pay for!"), and ask them to simply write a letter or memo saying "We're aware of it and have no problem."

Litigation is merely the penultimate stage of a negotiation which broke down many steps before.
FWIW, a sole prop isn't a one-person show. You can hire 1000 people if you want to. What it means legally is that you and your business are the same. You have unlimited liability and you're taxed on a personal income basis.

I understand what they're saying here, but it's strange to confuse the size/style of business with sole prop, partnership and other legal terms.

Also, if you've run a business that's a separate P/L inside another business, a project where the money is coming from a 3rd party or anything involving 'investment' you know you are in no way captain of your own ship at that point.
Just another quick thought. I suppose to be completely safe, I could try to work in a technology area that was as different as possible from what my project is on (mostly real-time graphics, c++, etc.). Perhaps that would keep them separate if it were ever a legal question.
Yes, in California.
> Browsers shouldn't be the entity deciding on address resolution ...

See DNS Wars, Episode 6: "Resolverless DNS":

* https://blog.apnic.net/2019/11/04/dns-wars/

* https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/Resolverless-dns

('Amusingly' I cannot view the mailman page because Cloudflare DDoS protection is blocking me. The same CF that is doing DoH for Mozilla.)
Good to know. Yeah, I'm in California. Thanks.
I think the simplest way to use a computer in the pre-PC era to profit would be to apply the computational power to calculations that nobody else could afford to make - so things like stock trading could be very exploitable, as you would be applying arbitrage methods that the market literally could not keep up with.

If your intent is to accelerate research, on the other hand, obvious candidates would be CAD systems and simulations. A lot of lighter/cheaper machine designs have come from finding better minima of cost/weight/strength, and microprocessors themselves are beneficiaries of CAD technology. If you're in the pre-industrial era, being able to transport back blueprints of modern designs would still be of benefit, even if the economy isn't ready for all of them.
The other day at work I was asked to describe what I look for when I look at a resume or screen a candidate. I said that one of the most important things to me was a demonstration of a breadth of knowledge and experience and that was more important to me than a depth of experience. The example I gave was along the lines of IMO it's better to have spent 10 years working with a variety of languages from a variety of paradigms on a variety of types of projects than to have spent 10 years becoming the super deep expert in a single thing.

Why?

Largely the reasons you cite. As trends change and technology changes, often times the person in the latter camp will struggle much more than the person in the former camp. Sure, the people in the latter camp are much more impressive in their little slice of the world but the person who has seen the proverbial world will often be able to adapt more quickly.

I've also found that the person with a breadth of knowledge which spans these sorts of concepts can often use that experience to form outside the box solutions (in a good way) to sticky problems.
Right, this further indicates F150 is inferior, as it does not even have enough friction to compete, let alone HP and torque
A nice collection of affiliate links.
A competent generalist is a specialist too.
Plastic bags are composed of atoms, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
Yes, the notebook was used up for a frivolous purpose. But consider, the vast majority of game consoles are used -- and used up -- for frivolous pruposes, and over their lifetimes, they'll have used more resources (e.g. electricity). Or consider large sporting events that costs lots of money to stage and large amounts of energy for the crowd to get there.

A lot of human resources are used for frivolous purposes. do you want to ban them all?
When I saw a BlendTec commercial for the first time, I thought: "that's wasteful!". Then I thought about it some more and realized that it was a tiny fraction of the waste that's being produced by viewers. I realized if viewers would keep their electronics 10% longer it would make many times as big a difference as putting a kibosh on this commercial series. So it actually raised awareness for me.
I know a lot of people are opposed to daylight saving but I actually like them.

Waking up 2 or 3 hours before the sun rises in winter, or 2 or 3 hours after the sun rises in summer isn't very natural. Daylight savings reduce the gap by one hour.
Wow...that Mozilla page that rates a bunch of products by how creepy they are [1] is very confusing. The first time I looked at it, I got the impression that it was telling me that Ring, for example, is rated "Not creepy!" when in fact it rates it "Very creepy!".

There are two ways it can mislead.

1. It appears that the items are sorted by creepiness, but in the table of products there is no indication of how creepy the product is. Instead, they have an indicator above the table that starts out "Not creepy!" and as you scroll down through the table that indicator goes through various levels of creepiness.

So let's say you are wondering about Ring--you are ready to buy but first want to see what Mozilla says. You go to the page, see "Not creepy!" and an array of products. As you scroll through the products looking for Ring, the only indication that the creepiness level is changing is that indicator at the top. If you don't notice that it changes, it is easy to assume the whole array is the "Not creepy!" section. Then you hit Ring, think it is "Not creepy!", and head over to Amazon to buy one.

I only noticed that this was not how it works because I scrolled to the end of the page, didn't see another array for the more creepy products, and only then realized what is going on.

2. Changing the filter settings does not change the creepiness indicator. If it is showing "Not creepy!" products, and you go change the filter settings to only show more creepy products, it shows those products, but still says "Not creepy!". It only updated the "Not creepy!" to whatever the creepiness level is for the shown products when you next scroll.

This page would work a lot better if it simply had separate sections for "Not creepy!", "A little creepy!", and so on.

[1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/
Backend code has moved a little. Java's popularity might even be waning.

I don't know about anyone else, but must of my time is spent wrangling enormous scripts in tools like CloudFormation to deploy relatively small amounts of code.

What's happened with JavaScript on the frontend is nuts though. I can't follow what those guys are up to anymore and can only assume they have a better understanding of caching, algorithms, etc with the explosion of code there compared with the days before even jQuery.
I'm paid a lot and I work remotely from a beach. If I don't like my job, I can easily find another that I do like.

Not too many other professions can say that. None of the doctors in my family can. Though at least they are saving lives, something else most professions can't say they do. :)

We are lucky this field is so lucrative, especially in the US. Let's enjoy it while it lasts.