skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Filtering out certain notes from a piano chord can be done by e.g. Melodyne, but that seems far from what's necessary to generate speech, so it would surprise me, if WaveNet can do that?
That would require audio recordings of Abraham Lincoln's voice. Not sure recording technology existed back then.
The stereotypes about hackers having learned computers instead of (or due to a lack of) social skills aren't created entirely of whole cloth.

I'm personally more surprised that there are people on Hacker News who are surprised by this (although of course it's not true for many people).
> I'm not interested in getting involved in their politics.

Then why did you even bring them up?

> Absurd.

Not if you're a sysadmin.

> Not this. You might have noticed a variety of java programmers saying "nope, not an issue here".

Because JNI is barely used. This isn't the case with Python, or Ruby, or a host of other lanuages.

> No, I have no interest in what you think any more.

Don't be an ass.
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I've just removed the "quick" word, Thanks :)
I've had a Hilux for Africa trips, they're great. But, a modern one has a lot of tech. And, old ones are pretty nasty typically.

This is more in the "Open Source Ecology" style of design, which I love.
> The real competitor is Microsoft Office

Is it? I haven't used any desktop office suite in more than five years, at least. I would think the real competitor is Google Docs, and I don't see any current credible path forward that brings OO or Libre Office to the web.
This is a move towards wireless, not lightening. We'll relive this controversy in a few years when the iPhone gets rid of the lightning port to go completely wireless.
@dang (or mods) - Could the URL for the story be updated to this one?
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It's a man-in-the-middle attack on culture.
Doing what Tom could never do.
This is similar, but in C++:

https://github.com/rongarret/Ciel
> I see the tech industry shaping the future for the world. The world is comprised of a diverse group of people. How can a narrow group of people understand the needs of everyone?

People should build tech that they find interesting. It's not our job as engineers to try to save the world. I program because I find it inherently fascinating. If other people benefit from my work, great. If not, great.

> There are a shortage of labor in tech

When programmer salaries rival those of upper management then we can say there's a shortage. Right now there's a desire to maximize executive salaries while minimizing programmer costs. That what "women in tech" is really about.
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I'm going to dig into this and find out, I've wanted to know for ages.

If the LED == LED_TORCH, then it looks like it may be possible:

https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie/blob/8cc44d67f3c924f30a8...

Either way, I'm planning on buying some spare parts to actually test and possibly PoC this.
Ciel: A Lisp-like language implemented in C++
That's too bad. Maybe there is nothing you can do, since your nod and "mmhmmm" was not noticed. Maybe you have to mention a girlfriend to maintain symmetry, or something. It is uncomfortable to be misunderstood in this way; it's not necessarily all under your control. For what it's worth, I think it's fine to say directly, "I'm not interested in dating you," and let the chips fall where they may, but I understand that makes some people uncomfortable.
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If you surround yourself with people who ... care about other things more than about building a successful business

I've worked with all kinds of laggards, attitude cases and/or bona fide sociopaths my time; most are difficult to spot up front.

But show me someone who genuinely cares more about their employer's or their own business than their spouse and their children, and who hasn't done the only honorable thing to do once they've reached that point -- namely, to file for no-fault divorce and unambiguously hand over custody of said children to said spouse; along with a hefty trust fund for each kid -- then at least I'll know they'll be impossible to work for or with in any capacity, and inevitably a poison pill to any effective, sustainable organization.

In other words -- you're bluffing. No one (who isn't single and without kids) genuinely believes that you shouldn't "care about other things more than about building a successful business". Everyone knows that it's a balancing act -- it's just a question of how you tune the parameters.

But if you genuinely, literally believe that -- then do the world a favor, and put the following disclaimer on each and every job description you put out: "Please be advised that this position is not suitable for persons entrusted with the care of young children (or minors). And in any case, such persons will not be hired."
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Hi,

Has anybody seen this book as an audiobook?
https://blog.fogcreek.com/make-better-software-magazine/

I googled it, but found nothing. May be someone has seen it?

Thank you.
In particular, employers whining about lack of X need to ponder raising wages to where employees can afford homes in a city where prices are now within spitting distance of $1k/ft2. When your basic pitch is, "We desperately need [data engineers | machine learning engineers | computer vision engineers | what have you] so desperate to live in CA they'll accept never being able to afford a home unless our lottery tickets pay out", it should be unsurprising they have a hard time finding the talent they claim to need. Or, they could accept remote workers! Even remote workers near sfbay, who just don't want to burn 2.5 hours/day commuting in and out of sf...
Of course! This is just step 1 - validating your idea. Actually starting a startup takes a whole lot more time, effort, stress, and hard work.
> American females have a very similar experience as American males

How can you say that after reading the first question in the article? Do you think the editor was just cherry picking the most extreme anecdotes they could find?
People seem to think teachers have it plush. Median salary in California is something around 60k. I made less than that before I switched to being a software developer. And the hours, for me, were often over 14 hours per day, with half days on the weekend grading or lesson planning. Summer was summer school. Breaks were getting caught up. I love being a developer. Good pay, real vacation, sane hours.
Totally agree with the article. Seems like an unnecessary delete of a functional and ubiquitous port, for which I can currently spend anywhere between 6 and 1000 bucks to buy headphones of my choosing. Maybe Apple is trying to push people towards more Beats expenditures.
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White noise or meditation playlists on Spotify. Or Dr. Dre instrumentals.
Or treat it as part of the original author's job. When you write a piece of music you add tempo and intensity metadata to the score, so why not do the same when writing a novel?
I have thought about that. Many times. I have a couple of barriers, most of which are temporary:

1. I have student debt from my law degree, and I have a lower risk tolerance until that's paid off.
2. My daughter is 4, it's nice to be around for the early years, and the corporate gig is quite comfortable in terms of hours.
3. I'm in Maine. Most clients would require me to travel, which impacts #2.

I do have a former colleague here that started a data consultancy. I should grab a beer with him and see if we have common ground in the short term. It's not quite starting your own thing, but it might be fun.
Sometimes it is liberating to embrace the awkward :)
...casting a throwaway vote.

Let me guess... you live in a non-swing state, yet registering your preference for Coke vs. Pepsi is vitally important.
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For me, it was HTTPS Everywhere that was causing the problem. Disabling it showed me the pictures.
I've used it a lot for C with great success, although that's not C++.

Give it a shot with the cpptools (I think that's what it's called), as well as the clang extension (which improved the experience by an order of magnitude).
If we follow your logic, it seems like a valid response would essentially be a social network disconnected from a company with a profit motive. The closest thing we had to that was diaspora[0], although it doesn't seem very successful.

[0] https://joindiaspora.com/
Why would I want to attack you? I'd love to see you achieving the utmost goodness potential you can reach without the need to bow under senseless political currents. Coming from a society ranked amongst the highest in equality scale, it comes naturally to me. Frankly, I was writing about my experiences while I was traveling around the world for roughly 2 years and using mainly AirBnB for accommodation. Do you really think white people get automatically pass when they try to do anything?

What I think you are talking about and see is more fight for belonging to the upper echelon of society, the ones that seem to make decisions affecting all of us. Well, news for you, vast majority of whites don't belong there. If you also want to be more nasty, i.e. singling out Jews, a historically popular scapegoat nation, another news for you - most of them are poor and uneducated, hence disadvantaged. Simply the goal of all these fights is power and nowadays equality turned into another mean how to acquire power, causing yet another slew of injustices, sadly.
Why do I have to be angry? Is it not possible to appreciate that more things now taste like vanilla, which is quite expensive when extracted using traditional methods?
I see your point. I guess for something like this to work, bigotry/racism/whatever would have to decrease in popularity to the point where you would be shunned harder if you were a bigot than if you were a person who openly objected to bigotry. We may not be there yet, but I do feel optimistic that we will eventually get there. Things were much worse only a short time ago. One thing that makes this ("this" being the idea of the market “handling” the problem) harder to accomplish is the fact that many people who may not be discriminatory themselves tend to have a passive attitude towards discrimination as long as it’s not happening to them. For example, many white people aren’t racist, but would they all agree to boycott a store that was openly racist towards black people? Probably not.
They don't. They make countless headphones that don't require batteries. They make countless headphone that are wireless. I switched to bluetooth noise cancelling headphones a few years ago and haven't looked back... but eliminating the jack seems rather silly to me. There are still AMAZINGLY good headphones that are always going to require a cord.

To me this is as stupid as Intel refusing to support USB3 for the sake of "moving on". That worked out well...
> Thus, you would have to traverse the entire linked data structure to transfer ownership of every node. This is O(n) work.

Correct.

> Making things worse, you would have to make sure that the ownership transfer is atomic - no other part of the program should see the data structure in a “partially transferred” state.

Correct. Guild::Channel#transfer_ownership() does it.

Basically, share big linked data with multiple threads is difficult (simply we need to lock every access).

> Another example: Say you initially have a guild with three objects, Foo, Bar and Qux, where Foo and Bar point to Qux. If I transfer ownership of Foo, should Qux be transferred as well?

Foo -> Qux; Bar -> Qux

Yes, Qux also moved. Programmer can know by "exception" when accessing Qux via Bar after transfer.

This "realization" is the key of Guild. On threads, we can't realize that Qux is shared mutable.
I talk to plenty of actual women in tech. They rarely complain about anything that affects women more than men. And if they do, it usually comes from a die-hard feminist SV hedge fund kid who blows everything out of proportion because of political reasons.

So it's equally as shitty for men. Women not choosing to become software engineers or quitting more than men do indicates nothing since there are tons of different factors in play. Mainly, most women have an easier way out by getting married so they don't have to do any hard work, physically or mentally. How do you think they survive otherwise?

>You would also learn that plenty of people are working on making a more inclusive industry for reasons that have nothing to do with pushing down their own wages. I'm one of them.

And I think you are deluded and playing into the hands of corporations with no actual benefit to the society.
The funny thing is, when I was 20, and working for startups, I saw so many startups shoot themselves in the foot with the idea that "we need to hire a grey hair, or the investors won't take us seriously". And then they would hire a non-technical CEO.
Right. I have no idea whether it's a majority like it is with whites, but I would also disagree with a claim that very few men feel discriminated against.
That's actually an interesting point. Is it true, though? AFAIK you have to actually be a member of the MFi program to see its terms (and the terms are under NDA), so I don't know what the exact restrictions are. I'm certainly not aware of any non-Apple devices with a lightning port on them, but I'm struggling to think of who would actually make such a device. The only reason I can think of for this is if you want to make a wireless device that charges over a lightning cable, but it's almost certainly a lot cheaper for such a device to just charge over USB instead of trying to charge over lightning anyway, and the only reason to want lightning is if you want your users to be able to charge your device with the same cable they use to charge their iPhone, but nobody seems to care about that sort of thing.

Which is to say, this may very well be true, but the lack of third-party devices with lightning ports can also easily be explained as just nobody wants to do that.
...use a competitors service.

I've decided that since I don't actually enjoy being punched in the face, I'm going to avoid face-punching services altogether.
The argument I am disputing is that Apple is removing possibilities and connection adapters, not adding them.
Audio can go both ways over lightening.
do people use social media as their sole news source? why is a newspaper my friend?
Wrong way around. 'Female' is the adjective, 'woman' is the noun. We don't speak of 'man drivers' or 'man politicians', and I've never heard the series of words 'man engineers'/'man software engineers'. We talk about male and female athletes, but not man and woman athletes.

(yes, female can be used as a noun by itself, but usually it's an adjective modifying a noun)
I've now used several relational databases, Cassandra, couchbase, and dynamoDB and here's what I've learned: They all suck. Every one of them in their own special snowflake ways, but they all suck.
I would not use the phrase "go out." That sounds like a date. I would find some other means to signal that this is professional. As others are saying, inviting someone to grab a coffee in the break room is much less likely to sound like romantic interest than saying something like "go out for coffee."

Try phrases like this:

Meet for coffee.

Grab a coffee together.

Let's discuss (professional thing) over coffee.
Audio quality does leave something to be desired. https://vimeo.com/47987691
> Because you like competition and you want to knock that "leading FOSS office suite" off its perch.

If I prefer competition among OSS office suites, and am unsatisfied with the leader, why would the competitor I choose be the one that's basically a trailing, less maintained for several years, version of the same codebase as the leader, rather than something that's both more genuinely different and has been more actively maintained, like Calligra?
Seconded, I have never worked at a company where talking to the HR team was a good idea for any reason.

If you are thinking about it you should probably seek a lawyer because they are not your friend.
Cue defensive comments from male readers...
That doesn't make sense. If the problem is that we don't have some sort of licensing board, experience should be more highly valued, not less.
I disagree with how the question is framed, around whether someone can do these things:

People can do all sorts of bad things; they can mentally abuse their children, they can gamble away all their family's assets, cheat their co-workers and customers, they can hate and do many other things to ruin their lives, their family's, their neighbor's, their country's and the world's. People have the right to turn the U.S. into a broken state like Somalia. People have a long history of causing death, destruction, and pain to each other; I think that amounts to the same point in your comment, and I agree it's irrefutable.

But who cares what I can do? Once we mature past childhood, it's meaningless; it doesn't inform our decisions. The question is not what can we do - who wants to do 99.9% of those things? - but what could we be doing? What are our obligations to our families, our neighbors, our societies and the world? What do we care about? What do we do well, where are we causing harm, and how can we do better?

Saying we can be racist - well of course. But it distracts from the real questions: What harm is being done? There is very well-established, serious widespread harm being done to tens of millions of people because of racism; it's gone on for generations. What can we do to make it better?

In most of the world, people (or at least some leaders) have chosen poverty, ignorance, and violence over liberty, and justice. In the U.S., people chose to do better - they could have chosen otherwise; I hope they continue to do so.
Relatively, training is fast (due to parallelism / masking so you don't have to sample during training) but during generation sampling is a sequential process. They talk about it a bit in the previous papers for PixelCNN and PixelRNN.
How much data does a model take up? I wonder if this would work for compression? Train a model on a corpus of audio, then store the audio as text that turns back into a close approximation of that audio. (Optionally store deltas for egregious differences.)
Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to address. I should have quoted the first sentence of the parent to make that obvious, since there were a few assertions in that comment.
I wish visual studio code can bring in typings automatically based on different filetypes, or at least get those popular ones ready-to-go.
>[0] commenting because I don't want "craft beer software" to become a joke. Some of us actually work in that industry.

So make good craft beer, and it won't last as a joke. Trying to police people's words doesn't. I'm not trying to be a dick, either. It didn't work for SJWs, it won't work for craft beers. Ten million people nagging for 8 hours a day doesn't accomplish as much as one person doing.
I get what you're saying, but in this case the end result is still that the overall field is has high demands for people who already know how to do what they need done.
Ok, but how do I get on the coffeeshop wifi if Chrome is my only browser and it throws up a warning page with no "ignore and continue" before I can log in?

This is already an issue for me today. Fortunately I can still tell it to go to example.com without issue, and log in from there. But if they stick up warnings on http I may be in a position to have to have a second browser just for wifi logins.
I'm not opposed to either the ideas of "rights", or of there being conflicting rights, or of there being rights of obligation, say, an obligation to help those in need (good sam laws, mariners' aid laws).

I'm not even entirely concerned with rights being apparently, at least at first blush, inconsistent.

What I am concerned with is what you've just done: to elevate a single right or a single set of rights to some priveleged status, simply on a say-so. These turn out to be both exceptionally arbitrary, on close examination, and frequently dysfunctional. Take a trolly problem, or a unit in battle, or a sinking ocean liner, or any number of other conditions, with your primacy of right-to-life, for example.

Note that life, liberty, and happiness are given in the US Declaration of Independence (though not the Constitution) as unalienable rights. That is, not rights which must be granted (any two-bit punk can claim your life, a zip-tie can restrict your liberty, and a wailing child can remove your happiness), but they cannot be given to another -- unlike your property, or business income, or even spouse and children.

So no, actually, I don't find that a convincing argument, though thanks.
Apples war on DRM was when Steve Jobs was alive, now he isn't who knows if the policy will remain.
We can debate it, and many countries have many laws on the topic. However, you clearly are not interested in debating it.
Why would you use VS Code (even with vim keybindings) over vim? Is there something you can't do in vim but can in VS Code?
> If you've ever lived in another culture for any significant period of time, as I have, you will realize just how differently two completely rational people can view the same event through different cultural lenses.

The best course on American History that I ever took was taught by an man who had grown up in South America (he was teaching in the US). I first learned a number of interesting ways of thinking about the Americas through because of cultural emphasis that he brought from another part of the world.
Basically only when the law says that something is illegal.
I second that!
Ah I stand corrected, thanks.
No, I think the suggestion is that expecting people to spend every waking hour of their lives reading about programming isn't realistic.
Please don't compare nurse, a rather low desired job, and engineering, a rather desired job. If you want to make a comparison, I would pick psychiatrist or veterinarian which both has similar desirability and technical requirements as engineering. Both also have a much worse gender equality ratios that engineering, with a trend going from bad to worse.

"Ask a male psychiatrist" would be a interesting idea to push for more gender equality, except that A), males with mental health issues (which such channel would be associated with) are generally treated as the lowest on the cultural pecking order, B) male psychiatrist is basically becoming a extinct concept.
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The business owner's response is that the experienced person won't take time reading tutorials or asking questions and thus get it done faster.

FWIW I agree most companies should train.
Well, you know more about this space than I do. So maybe it's not so bad...

But the article sure makes it sound like hospitals are hiding MRSA-related deaths, since MRSA infections are often "hospital acquired". And we all agree that hospitals would have an incentive to hide these numbers.

And the apparent under-reporting seems to indicate that this is in fact what's going on. This sounds like a problem! Thanks a lot, dishonest hospitals!
good point ... I am pretty sure there are a thousand audible products waiting to be launched.