skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, there are several other open source aligners out there, mostly from academic research or derived from academic projects. In my personal GitHub page I have a repo with an annotated list of forced aligners. (If I add a link to it, the spam detector triggers ?! Anyway, google "github forced-alignment-tools" to find it.)

Gentle, which is based on Kaldi, has a good performance, and an handy setup script.

However, these aligners, which are based on automatic speech recognition techniques, have pre-trained models only for English and maybe an handful of other "popular" languages. Some allows you to train your own language model, but very few users have the actual competence/resources for doing that.

aeneas is build using an older approach, which has the advantage of requiring weaker language models, that are already available (in the form of TTS voices): this is the reason why it "supports" so many languages. Of course the disadvantage is that aeneas works decently well at (sub)sentence granularity, but worse than ASR-based aligners at word granularity or with more noisy audio files.
China: Fab Boom or Bust?
Its slightly ironic that this article "for beginners" is filled with obscure acronyms he doesn't define (UART, BOM, BLE...).
> if they don't understand the function of an artifact in the world, the maker of said artifact has failed.

Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015

#2 A Man From Mars Can't Figure Out What Your Website Is
About In Less Than Four Seconds.

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/biggest-mistakes-in-web-desi...

It seems badssl caters to a bunch of insiders who knows about its function, a quick description of what is its purpose and how to use it would make it quite useful to a larger public.
That depends on what the product may cost and how many you intend to sell. In general you might be right. But if you look in getting started and having a solution (suboptimal but working) quickly, then they are a good choice. Maybe not the best choice, but good.
HOA fees pay for community upkeep as well, like a community park or pool or splashpad.
Alex Scotti here.
Sharding isn't something we dealt with. As the paper suggested, there was 'work in progress.'
"To be honest, those shills on Reddit tend to be pretty obvious"

It's often difficult to distinguish between people who are first-order shills and people who have just swallowed and regurgitated piece of PR from elsewhere.
Fascinating work, thank you for undertaking it and sharing your results and code. Have you compared your readings with venous blood draws? I've read that the reason people got excited over Theranos was because they were handwavey promising venous-grade results from capillary fingerstick blood collection. There is a marked difference between the kind of blood collected between the two. I suspect we won't resolve that difference other than through calibration, until we will get to the point where we're directly sampling from implanted devices powered inductively.
I think it's better to not even think of them as "generic functions". Think of them as language keywords which happen to have the syntax of functions.
Property tax is nothing more than the government exerting control over your home. You'll never truly own your home with a property tax, point taken. You appeared to argue in favor of HOAs with tired lines of financial stability, with no evidence. Anyone or anything that has the power to take away your property and home is, IMHO, a mortal threat that should be removed.
They aren't saying you should. They're saying most people (incl. themselves) don't care to own the product. They'd rather pay to rent access to Spotify's collection than to be required to buy all the music they wish to listen to.

We need to make at least one assumption: Spotify will have the music you want to listen to when it is released (not always the case - and for myself - it is never the case.)

If you spend more than $120/yr on music it could make financial sense to "rent music" from Spotify with a premium subscription instead. If you aren't particularly attached to music you listened to last year, or five years ago, or a decade ago, then it doesn't make sense to want to own the music to begin with. If there is a particular artist you're attached to, that doesn't prevent you from also purchasing that album. You can also use Spotify to check out a band you just heard about [0]. I don't even use Spotify but recognize why others would instead of purchasing music.

[0] Remember the assumption we made.
Yes. They are the problem, with all of their tribalism and their ignorance and their whininess and their et cetera and so forth.
East of the Mississippi, "going native" quickly results in a thick, impassable jungle that will eventually tear down your house.

Most people outside of serious lawn perfectionists do nothing other than simply mow their lawn once every week or two. I assume the fashion for perfectly green lawns in California deserts came from an imitation of the environment back east.
Obama pulled America out of a recession caused by the previous GOP administration and the bankers. So yes, he did the best he could, especially given that the GOP was obstructing him every step of the way. (Incidentally, one of the first things that Trump did was remove the restrictions on those bankers so we can all party like it is 2006 again.)

> Based on what you say here, it's very clear to you that for poor people to vote Democratic favors their interests, and that for poor people to vote Republican goes against them. This is very evidently not so clear to everyone. Perhaps all those who disagree with you are simply ignorant fools. Then again, perhaps they're not.

Not so much ignorant as misguided. I suspect that the complexity of a modern country is such that it has become quite hard to follow the money trail.

But blaming immigrants and dismantling the small bits of social support that America has is emphatically not going to solve the problem, it will in fact do the opposite.

The question then becomes if you will feel at least fractionally responsible for the damage you have caused or if you're going to disavow your contribution.

If you want to solve a problem - any problem - you should first own the problem. Pointing at others is not going to work, it never ever has.
Pandoc actually converts between a wide range of document formats.
You just described turf-type tall fescue, which is the recommended low-maintenance lawn for the mid-Atlantic. It might not do well in Ohio though since it's a bit cooler.

If this woman weren't trying so hard to make a point, she would get the same natural grass that is grown on the side of highways and then mow it high every month or two. Highway departments don't spend a ton on maintenance, the grass isn't irrigated, and it hosts a variety of wildflowers, birds, rodents, etc. The grass on the side of the highway is planted like any other grass. They typically select grasses native to the area because they require little maintenance, so they will hold the soil down and prevent erosion.
Come to Romania! Land is cheap and you can plant as much as you want.
I guessed that much myself to be honest :). However it has always been trivially easy to copy and paste content from a PDF so their restriction didn't make much sense to me even with that point in mind. And with the added issue that every tech recruiter I approached enforcing the same policy, it made it impossible to shop around for recruitment agencies that would honour my CV.

Thankfully I've not had the same issues when job hunting again recently. At least not thus far.
The problem with "too clever" isn't just about cleverness that is actually in the code. It's also very much about cleverness that could potentially lurk behind any particular syntactical expression.

When you look at a line of code, what can you tell about its semantics without considering non-local information? What is invariant and what could potentially be redefined?

I think the answer to this question is extremely important for readability when you're not already familiar with a codebase.
This is true. Indeed, the true question usually revolves around transfer. That is, as your brain changes in response to a certain memory task (e.g. recognition of visual objects) to get better at it, will those changes transfer benefits to other types of memory tasks (e.g. recall of visual objects), or tasks which have a memory component (e.g. navigation).

Transfer has been the bane of most cognitive training paradigms. Improvements are seen in the same task, but do not seem to transfer to conceptually related tasks. One idea to overcome problems in transfer has been to identify tasks which inordinately rely on core cognitive processes of memory (e.g. recollection vs. familiarity; Yonelinas, 2002), or relational binding (Konkel & Cohen, 2009). Another idea might be to train using memory strategies, like loci. Typically that research looks to whether using a particular strategy benefits memory, and frequently, does that strategy work in a particular population with poorer memory (e.g. children, adults with Alzheimer)
Posting 3 comments here will not make your post more interesting. Moreover, it will make it more prone to get a flag.

And why are all the questions about sex? Do you have any filter to avoid trolls and spamers?
I'm wondering if the main factor is one's ability to learn a new language - itself affected by many factors such as age, for example?

I've been married to a native Japanese for going on 19 years now.

I have tried to learn the language. I have lived in Japan for 6 years, hoping that full immersion would help. I even embarked in the Kumon Japanese course whilst in Japan, from beginner level to more advanced. I have piles and piles of the work books cluttering my home.

I ended up being able to read katakana, hiragana, and learned some 250 Kanji.

What I didn't end up managing was being able to have decent conversation in Japanese. Sure, I could ask for a beer, directions, talk about the weather, but that was about it. I had reached some plateau and could go no further.

In the end I gave up. It was basically something I couldn't do. I tried many different ways of learning, found none which could not prevent my sheer frustration at not being able to take the knowledge in.

Are some people simply 'wired' to learn language more than others? Is there an age limit, for example? Was it my low tolerance for frustration? Was it my perfectionist tendencies? Probably a 'yes' to most of those.

But I stopped after more than a decade of trying.
There's more to it than just getting AMD to boot the kernel. Features like AirPlay that are Intel-specific.
Platonism in Metaphysics
If I could upvote something multiple times, it'd be this post. The conjugations are well documented and can be intuited with enough exposure, but the insight as to why (い-verbs) and common usages (お早うございます) is something clearly lacking from the literature.
Consensus? Not likely, but there are gardeners who want to attract kinds of birds, butterflies, bees and perhaps other wildlife which from a city pov are neutral (not seen as pests). Of course there can be outliers who look to attract what others consider pests or nuisance animals like rodents, raccoons, and other disease spreading animals.
Lots of people here pointing out that BRK's buying strategy isn't what distinguishes their business so much as their access to insurance float. That's a good point, probably the most important one.

Also worth looking at is the relative contribution of these kinds of acquisitions to BRK's overall performance. Simply put, it's not Borsheim's and See's Candy that give BRK.A a $425B market cap. There's an enormous portfolio of high-ticket investments --- many of them in gigantic public companies --- that dwarf these mom-and-pop acquisitions. Even among the wholly owned subsidiaries, and even in the smaller "Manufacturing and Retail" segment, contributions are dominated by very large companies like Clayton Homes.

Noted below in the thread, the "powerhouse five" of Berkshire's portfolio: BNSF Railroads, IMC (one of the largest metalworking companies in the world), Lubrizol, Berkshire Energy, and Marmon (one of the largest home builders in the US). I doubt very much the acquisition of any of these companies followed the casual pattern listed in the post. Some of them weren't even acquired all at once.

Finally: having twice been involved in the sale of a company I was a principal at, the acquisition process was pretty unlike the breakdown this person provided. It was somewhere in between what he reports Buffett's process to be and what he claims the normal process is. The actual decision --- getting to an MOU with a notional price --- was reasonably informal and didn't take up much time. Certainly nobody did a road show. The rest of the process was legal, and I very much doubt Berkshire avoids much of that work either.
The difference is decades of economic policy that encouraged people to dump their life savings into owning their own home. When you've invested heavily in something, you tend to suffer from sunk costs fallacy. Add to that the fact, that those that own the homes and the land are typically the leaders in their community and you have those invested in a place encouraging others to stay there as it dies. Those that own the home can move out, but if enough do so, then the only prospect for the laggards is abandoning the home and losing it all.

I agree that people should move, but circumstances are different today.

I'd love to see more sociology and economic research in how towns die and recover. Tons of money studies urban poverty and decay, and I suspect rural poverty and decay doesn't get nearly the same attention because it's out of sight and out of mind for those funding the research.
I've been studying these trends closely for the last five years given our startup's survival depends on the outcome. In short, I don't agree. It's looking more and more to me that we're in the middle of the Palm and flip phones era of wearables. If you track Fitbit closely, we're actually close to the first crash with momentum generating for wearables 2.0. The watch industry is adding these features but given their prior existential crisis with quartz, I see a very mature industry taking their time and not feeling threatened at all. The biggest drawback to smartwatches remains their screens and battery life. There they aren't competitive at all with very nice mechanical watches for the most basic function - showing the time. The more I've used the Apple watch, the more I've found it pointless with a battery that dies and I don't notice for hours. I'll learn more at Basel this week, I doubt any one there is fearful the way they were even two years ago.

Furthermore, I'm still amazed that none of these devices have changed mobile phone user experiences at all. When that happens we'll be talking about wearables 2.0, there's a lot of fodder there for deep integrations.
Not everyone who jaywalks is following the third law, but jaywalking might be a good indication that you are! From what I can tell, the idea of those three laws is to emphasize the first two. Anyone who isn't falling for the mentality of the first two risks, by their 'out of the box' tendencies, being tossed in the clink with the rapists and murderers.

In ultra-capitalist America, they are saying, money's power is protected at the cost of some human freedoms, such as the freedom to smoke homemade cigarettes that didn't feed into the industry. If you don't make the sacrifices required by the first two laws, you might find yourself sacrificed. It's safest to conform.
Show HN: Whatsapp Chat Sentiments Visualizer
Parsing is something that's very pleasant in Haskell. Other languages can use parser combinators too, of course. It's good at it though.
At what size does her property become a "farm"?

Even under the loosest definitions of the word "farm", she would need a few multiples of her current acreage to qualify. An acre means you can have a large garden.
That only a small minority will wear...

EDIT: So the people voting this down think a majority of Google employees (e.g. >50%) or large minority (20-49%) would wear this thing if they received for free? I'm genuinely curious. But I'd be willing to bet not even a large minority of Google employees wear any smart device.
The article says:

> What this means is that the sentences, “This is a car”, and, “This is the car”, would both be, 「これは車です」. There is no differentiation.

This is not always true. The latter could be 「これが車です」. The は and が particles are very similar but are still different. Fully grasping this small difference is one of the biggest problems Japanese learners encounter when studying grammar.

Closer to the beginning, the article also mentions:

> The topic of a Japanese sentence is very similar to what other languages refer to as the subject. The subject of a sentence is the person or thing that does the action described by the main verb in the sentence. These are, in fact, slightly different concepts, but for now, we will treat them as being the same so as to keep things simple.

It turns out that は marks the topic and が marks the subject. I feel that many times the confusion between は and が in Japanese learners happens because the learning material tries to make this simplification in the beginning. When it's time to learn が, it's hard to retrain the brain.
The way you're framing it sounds like we don't have any alternatives to continuing down this road; from my perspective; this is the future we are creating by not considering options. We didn't come up with these backward ideas, bullshit wears suits. We're the ones we've been waiting for; it's up to us to change this into something better, and that starts with considering options.
It feels like Intel are putting this out in lieu of actual hardware. As always remain skeptical until real silicon appears on the market.
That was your intent, as outlined in your comment.
In this case, the law is one big grey area. It forbids a lawn that "constitutes a nuisance", but doesn't define what a "nuisance" is.
I do like your hashname/nohash idea.
If we could come up with a simple compression negotiation protocol also: zlib -> zstd. But this will be much harder, as hashes are internal only, and compression is in the protocol.

kudos to brian m carlson to convince linus to use sha3-256 over sha256. this is really the only sane option we have.
Ego will take you far. And leave you there alone.

Avoid doing nothing and everything. Good luck.
You should not be surprised. UI is not UX and UX here is terrible for those who can't figure out what the purpose of badssl.com is.

Simply replacing the page title repeating the domain name by an explicit title along the lines of what's used on ssl labs client test: "test SSL/TLS Capabilities of Your Browser".
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html

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So you're saying app publishers have full control, as long as you approve?
We're a bit off from the smartwatch killing off the traditional watch. I wouldn't blame it on Apple doing a bad job if that is what you meant. If anything, they brought the smartwatch more mainstream with the release of the Apple Watch. So, we ask ourselves what is the reason the smartwatch hasn't replaced the traditional watch? There is a myriad of reasons. Let's start off with price points, then battery life, and go from there?
No. We're talking about zoren's hypothetical case where git used a typedef from the beginning, instead of littering char[20]s all over the tree.

My prior comment was explaining why jffry's complaint is nonsensical (a typedef does not prevent moving from a single hash model to a multiple simultaneous hash model).
It's also worth noting the value snakes and frogs provide in the population control of other less desireable rodents and insects.
I wonder what the performance of these are with PostgreSQL's pg_test_fsync, which is one of the proper tools to benchmark a SSD. I get 4000 iops with my Intel 320 SSD and 9000 iops with Intel S3700. For comparison, Intel 600p maxes around 1500 iops, and Samsung 750 Evo at 400 iops.
With respect, and I don't mean this as a personal dig but rather a statement of fact as I perceive it, I don't think you understand how business works.

None of what you say above makes any sense in the real world.

Absent a clear, true and significant competitive advantage not a single responsible business owner would make the reckless move of switching platforms.

And, BTW, these advantages go far beyond cost. Frankly, in the end, if you have a real business, cost isn't as significant as function. And, by "function" I don't mean how the software works. I mean how the enterprise functions, with software being one set of tools at your disposal.

Simple example: Hire office workers familiar with and trained on MS Office tools, of course on Windows. Now hire 1,000 of them. Shove them in front of Ubuntu Linux with Libre Office.

The productivity dip will be significant and it might last a while while they learn both a new OS, new GUI and new tools. And, of course, now you have the potential for one or many compatibility issues as you communicate across departments or with other businesses.

So long as you don't use MS Office compatibility, by definition, will always have a question mark next to it. And, if there are tools that depend on MS Office you have a serious problem. One example would be domain specific Excel add-ins.

Yet, that's not the worst of it. This forced switch at scale causes the company to lose focus and have to concentrate on something totally unrelated to what it is they do for several weeks. Not only is that bad, that's irresponsible.

And, in the end, what do you gain? Nothing. Actually, no. You gain problems and potential problems. The kinds of things you might regret in six months or five years as documents and work accumulate.

"If it works, don't fix it" is sage advice.
It's Better To Animate a Film Alone, Even If It Takes Years
Do you know why did Google removed your app?
Always wanted to see what a self-gendered CA root would be like ;P
Using particles in this way almost sounds like using flags to specify parameters when calling a function. This allows them to be placed in any order. A Powershell-like example:

Construct-Sentence -subject Taro -object Noriko -verb to_see -time Past
> "Taro saw Noriko."

Construct-Sentence -object Noriko -time Past -verb to_see -subject Taro
> "Taro saw Noriko."

The original sentence is "Tarō wa Noriko wo mimashita." And "masu" appears to be the root verb "to see".

Construct-Sentence -wa Taro -wo Noriko -verb masu -time Past
> "Tarō wa Noriko wo mimashita."

Something more Bash-like:

csent wa:Taro wo:Noriko masu -past_affirmative
# "Tarō wa Noriko wo mimashita."

Meanwhile, subject-object-verb (SVO) and similar patterns depend on the order of inputs:

Construct-Sentence Taro Norkio to_see Past
> "Taro saw Noriko"

Construct-Sentence Norkio Taro to_see Past
> "Noriko saw Taro"

This allows for invalid outputs:

Construct-Sentence Taro to_see Norkio Past
> "Taro Noriko'ed see"