skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quoting the paper, in the section related works:

"WaveNet (van den Oord et al., 2016) is a powerful generative model of audio. It works well for TTS,
but is slow due to its sample-level autoregressive nature. It also requires conditioning on linguistic
features from an existing TTS frontend, and thus is not end-to-end: it only replaces the vocoder and
acoustic model. Another recently-developed neural model is DeepVoice (Arik et al., 2017), which
replaces every component in a typical TTS pipeline by a corresponding neural network. However,
each component is independently trained, and it’s nontrivial to change the system to train in an
end-to-end fashion."
The "Flyboard Air" is also interesting [0] (and almost definitely not a hoax!). The inventor was recently in the news [1] saying he would have to leave France because the aviation authorities were cracking down and limiting his ability to test the craft.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEDrMriKsFM

[1] https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/14/french-hoverboard-creator...
Interesting that - of three licenses with only one question mark - the Artistic License 2.0 is one of them.

I disagree that it's "niched" to Perl, though; it's much less so than its predecessor at the very least.
Serious question, why are all these fake videos instantly recognizable? Other fake videos too, even long before "the thing" is shown just from the camera movement I know it's fake. They even try to hide it with artificial blur or lowering quality or shaking but the camera movement is still fake.
There is lots of stuff on reddit. I would not call either of those very out of the norm.
> 90% of people are strapped into financial obligations and have families.

So they have to prioritise what is important, if they feel that starting a business is more important, they will avoid getting financial obligations and starting a family.

This is also part of the overall risks, you might be better off just being an employee with a normal life instead of being a failed entrepreneur.
The UK has three different VAT bands: 20%, 5%, and 0%. (And then there's VAT exempt items, which aren't the same as 0%!)

See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_tax_(United_Kingdo....
You seem to be missing basic irrational aspects of human nature.
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So where's the line?

I was born and grew up under an actual communist rule. It was terrible. Also, it didn't really work due to fundamental human nature.

What human nature you ask? Well, mine for example. I'm working my ass of so that I can have more than you have. So that I can leave my wealth to my children (three so far) so that they can continue from a better position than where I started from (almost nothing, except the education my single mother gave me) to get an edge in life.

You want to take that option away from me? Sorry, not gonna work.
It's not really style transfer, but for a new speaker model, you just need to train each speaker with a dataset of 25 hours audio with time matched accurate transcriptions.

In the case of David Attenborough, I'm pretty sure that amount of data is available with subtitled BBC content.
"There's this thing called the economy, full of private entities,[..]"

Sure, but in order to interact, private entities, use money, that it's backed and come from the government. If you "starve the beast" you could discover that it's all of us who are feeding from its blood.

That's not so strange, because, after all, the beast is all of us.
Are business cards even relevant in this day and age?

Even so, if you've got to the point of exchanging business cards with somebody, wouldn't your amazing app already have been discussed?
> Java-Kotlin boundaries ... For me so far this boils down to annotating Java API methods that return null with @Nullable. If Java API never returns null collections then this is not too bad in practice.
You're being a pedant and intentionally obtuse, so let me be one too: While we often refer to the island as Britain, it's name has been Great Britain for many centuries.

The use of variations of Great Britain for the island dates at least as far back as Ptolemy - the use of variations of Britain alone (without some variation of "Great") quickly fell out of use around that time.

And as I'm sure you're perfectly aware, Britain is equally used to refer to the UK in common parlance. The history of using precursors of Britain (without "Great") to refer to a political entity dates back to the Romans, who started using Britannia to refer to the Roman province.

It was exceedingly clear from context that it was used to refer to the UK rather than the island. When talking about national identity, one also specifically talk about "British", which makes it more natural to use Britain rather than the UK.
It's less than 1Mk (one megakarma).
For best sarcastic emphasis I'd go for:

Highly "professional" community of _developers_
Bind is still a mess after all these years. It seems to me like I get an update every other week that fixes a trivial DoS that hits an unchecked assertion.

bind is a software that is only 80% finished. The missing 20% that take 80% of the time will only be implemented via CVEs.
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Those are very, very cool, and I'm sure they are a huge technical achievement, but they don't really deserve to be compared with "jet pack" style craft. They have no takeoff or landing abilities at all.
Page errors out right now. My guess it is meant to link to: http://info.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-stig-disa-security...

Also, there's more information here: https://www.enterprisedb.com/news/us-government-publishes-ed...
So if advertising on questionable sites bares the same results as advertising on respectable ones the bottom line is that advertising doesn't work at all.

Perhaps it's time to move away from profiling and return to the old days where the ads were correlated with the content/web site.
No it's not. Don't spread bullshit.

Taxation works pretty much the same way everywhere. The central banks are separate entities in any modern state/economy/monetary zone. The federal and state/local taxes are the same. The federal government takes on debts like states. You might remember the brouhaha about the debt ceiling and the big sequester in the past few years.

The Bretton Woods system was doomed to fail anyhow, it was a nice try to help the non-US post-war economies, but obviously as soon as some problem arose in the US (looming rise in unemployment), the system fell apart.

The petrodollar thing is real, but it's not important. The US import-export is enormous, the trade with China/India and the EU has a lot more influence on the dollar than oil interests. (And thus conversely the US power structure won't use the US central bank to try to exert power, because it'd fuck up its own economy the fastest - because the US benefits the most from global trade.)
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This only moves the problem slightly. You then have to trust the network surrounding your SSH box.
The SSME was a staged combustion but not full-staged combustion as the next SpaceX motor will be (Raptor).

The SSME are special and specially efficent because they burn fuel-rich and have multible pre-burners. They were very highly optimized but that made them complex.

Full-staged combustion has a better max performance for a given fuel and promises to be simpler in design.
Prof. Lessig said "code is law" I was just quoting him. Moreover "code replaces law" is an entirely unreasonable interpretation on its face and especially if you consider I said watch the evolution from A to B to C.

I guess I will just have to live with your disappointment.
> If you can't take the people of a democracy with you on a project, perhaps it's best not to try and build such a thing anyway, and then end up with a hack?

The people have consistently voted for parties that wanted at least this level of integration. The problem has been that people disagree about how far to go, not that there has not been support for tighter integration.

Often to get from one local maxima to a higher local maxima you end up with options in between that are worse in various ways. Doesn't mean there aren't people who prefer to get there even if they're unable to get enough support to go further.

> On the rest - I would come to a similar state but from a different direction full autonomy for small democratic units, who voluntarily delegate some authority rather than get granted powers from "above"

That's how we got the EU.
>That's frankly a very offensive accusation to make

Yeah. It's not like Apple had to settle lawsuits about batteries that seemed to be designed to break after a while. Oh, wait...
All the examples you mentioned were communicated pretty transparently in Bugzilla, developer blog posts and announcement blog posts. Just because you disagreed with them doesn't mean that the reasoning wasn't public and that you couldn't have contributed to it.
Well, the reviews of it that I've read have been complimentary, like those on Goodreads [1] and other SF related publications. So I naturally assume that I was in the minority since I didn't enjoy it as much as Ted Chiang's other stories.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7886338-the-lifecycle-of...
What risk? That they'd spend money on something that made them no/less money?

Other than their initial investments business owners are protected from almost all the risks their businesses take on. Company debts aren't personal debts and individuals can't be forced to work to repay the debts they cause the business to take on. Worse still these safety nets aren't paid for as these companies don't make a profit.

Whilst I won't discount the work Bezos has done the reason he's come out 1000s of times better off than other Amazon workers is because of his initial gamble.

It's not like the workers don't take on risks either. Almost all paid work is paid after the fact. If your employer goes bust you don't get paid
I swear this 98 percent of this article was from the Policy Change HN read yesterday.

I think the market for VPNs that have a policy for not keeping logs and easy-to-use will grow exponentially in the common days or weeks. For the more technically inclined, VPS
providers.
Well. That's the problem with democracy. Sometimes the ordinary people don't vote the way their betters intended them to. That doesn't necessarily mean democracy is broken. Just that sometimes the majority of the populace want things which are not very admirable.
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Why prefer that to having a good set of regulations?
You have a pretty optimistic opinion of the kinds of automation an intern gets.
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The phrase "worse is better" was coined precisely to explain the success of C, and I consider that paper required reading for entering this discussion.
I can't find the reference, but I remember reading that the landing is complicated by the fact that even at minimum thrust, with the tanks nearly empty, the ship is so light that even with a single engine, it would accelerate back up after hitting zero velocity. So if the engines are restarted too early etc. it could "miss" the ground!

(If someone can confirm/deny this? I'm seeing approx 28T dry mass, thrust per engine of 66T and min thrust of 70%, but that dated guess work from http://space.stackexchange.com/q/4466/ )
Awesome. That is a good insight. I currently had scrap this project until a client needs on then. By the time I continue developing it I was lost and do another readings on where I left off.

I think monthly fee and checking the app would be good for right now. It seems that I'm going to where your story is saying. Having it sold and not knowing anything about it after months might bite me in the future.

Thanks for the advice.
The fiscal multiplier is the US budget (public spending, funded by taxes) set by Congress, doesn't have much to do with the monetary thing.

Private corruption is many orders of magnitude a smaller problem, because there the agent-principal problem is less relevant. Enron had shareholders, they were lazy, but it was their money. The voters in public elections are playing with others' money too.
Lots of people wanted it to become a state. The ideal of a European state as a way of preventing war in Europe dates back centuries, and has been regularly proposed again. The most serious recent proposal being Winston Churchill who specifically argued for a United States of Europe after the war.

Churchill's efforts were a major factor in the establishment of the Council of Europe (not EU), and the European Court of Human Rights (CoE; not EU) and what became the EEC/EU.

So while many people involved also did not want to go all the way, historically the origin of the EU includes a lot of people who went into it with the explicit goal of eventually turning it into a state.

A core principle ever since the Treaty of Rome in 1957 has been to create "an ever closer union". You can't do that without eventually ending up with a state.
> you cannot choose your ISP/broadband provider

Wait, what? Never visited the US but I assumed you had the choice of providers, just as most of the rest of the world where internet is available.

I see the reason for this to allow ISPs to have infrastructure to collect data setup, so when some organization needs* access to it, it's already there and easily accessible.

* for national security or whatever
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There is already groups and small organisations that are gathering money to buy up these congressmens' browsing histories to publish them online. If this idea actually works, the karma and schadenfreude will be awesome to delight in.
You could grab a Raspberry Pi and set up a PiVPN.

http://www.pivpn.io/
Everyone will just have to accept that Daniel is not going to rewrite curl in an other language. If you want curl in Rust, a Rust programmer will have to step up and do it.
I wish people would get off Daniel's case about this. If you want to re-implement curl in rust or whatever, no-one's stopping you!
According to the author, the old package was 55MB including 15MB of bitcode, and the new one is 158MB including 70MB of bitcode.

So

* the bitcode portion has grown by 4.5x

* the non-bitcode portion of the bundle has grown by 2.2x (40MB to 88MB)
I'm totally new to tts, so please forgive the questions:

* Is this open source?

* What hardware would one need to run this?

* If specialist hardware is required (e.g. reasonably high end GPU) would that simply be for building and training the system or its operation?
I too have been writing a raytracer in Rust[0] recently. I tend to use raytracers as my go to project when learning a new language, especially those that are OOP, since it touches a few different areas that are commo such as:

+ Protocols/traits/interfaces and using that for polymorphishm, think intersectable/primitve types.

+ It typicall involves both understanding heap and stack allocated memory in the language as well as understanding the general memory model to build scene graphs etc

+ Building a small linear algebra library usually touches things like low level operations and performance operations
as well as operator overloading if the language supports it.

+ Writing images to disks via pixel buffers

Primarily though I think raytracers are very fun projects because you can produce nice looking results quickly which I find helps with motivation and passion for the project. I'm pretty pleased with some of my renders already[1]

0: https://github.com/k0nserv/rusttracer

1: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/k0nserv/rusttracer/master/...
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This doc is an improvement over most technical projects (it has an Audience section, hurrah) & is certainly better than the waste of time visiting the submitted link was, but… this PDF should be front-and-centre in the GitHub repo and available as HTML in the wiki.
Or you can use TeXmacs [1], enter such arrays in WYSIWYG and export to LaTeX.

[1] http://texmacs.org/tmweb/home/screenshots.en.html
Well it was done. The Space Shuttle was this exact idea. The problem was just that it did not work and nobody wanted to try it again.
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One of the people involved in the reproducible builds project is a NixOS committee. Fairly certain they're aware of nix/guix
It was a standard determined by Snellen, the inventor of the standard optometrist's eye chart. [0]

Snellen defined “standard vision” as the ability to recognize one of his optotypes when it subtended 5 minutes of arc.

Basically each line on the chart is marked with a distance such that it subtends 5 minutes of arc from that distance away. 20/20 simply means that you can see the 20 feet line from 20 feet away (20 feet being the standard testing distance). In no way does it represent "perfect" vision or the best possible resolution of the human eye.

Next time you go for an eye test you'll notice that the 20 line is usually the 3rd or 4th line up from the bottom. So if you can read lower than this your vision is "better than 20/20". This is often achievable with correction, even if your uncorrected vision is quite bad. (I believe there are limits to this with very high myopia, because of distortion caused by very thick lenses, etc).

This is why I find the way that LASIK is marketed to be disingenuous. I feel like people might be seduced by the offer of "20/20" vision, not realising that they already see better than that with their glasses on. The fact that LASIK companies are not 100% upfront about this just makes me a little suspicious about what else they might be hiding.

Disclaimer: I'm not an optometrist. Anyone who actually knows what they're talking about, feel free to correct me!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snellen_chart#.226.2F6.22.28m....
I wouldn't advocate for the curl project to experiment with rewriting some code in [Zig](http://ziglang.org/) yet, due to lack of maturity, but it is exactly in the target niche of the project. That is, near-seamless integration with a large pre-existing C codebase.

So you could, for example, take a 400 line C file, convert it to Zig, and have it import the .h files that the previous C file was including, and export an .h file for the rest of the codebase to look at. The compiler can turn this Zig file a .o file that integrates with the rest of the build. The part of the codebase written in Zig could benefit from the safety features, generics, and error handling features of the language while presenting the same interface to the rest of the codebase.

Now of course, if you already have a codebase written in 1 language, it's more complicated to introduce another. This is where the Zig build system comes into play. I'm working on this now, and it's a competitor to autotools, scons, cmake, make, and all those players. It's the Zig programming language with a declarative build system API built into the standard library with some basic tooling around it, and it ships with the compiler.

So if the Zig build system gets to the point where it is high quality enough to attract users and ubiquity in package managers, then a project which already uses Zig for its build system can start using it for its actual code without the penalty of adding a dependency.

In conclusion, once Zig has reached a stable enough state, I would challenge the libcurl devs to consider, perhaps it could make sense to slowly, carefully, methodically transition to a newer language, if that language was friendly enough to the process.
The reason curl is everywhere is that it's written in C. So obviously the author is not going to rewrite it in any other language.
Or that you care for a specific audience. I, for one, do not care about any audience members who get up in arms if I use "begs the question" in the sense of "raises the question", for example. The use has become so common, that I expect anyone who finds that offensive will not be worth the trouble for me to try to cater to.

You need to draw a line somewhere, or you will end up spending your life obsessing over unimportant details of what you write instead of actually communicating.
Oops, you are right, that's what I get for testing on zsh :(
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> These “you should switch language” remarks are strangely enough from the backseat drivers of the Internet. Those who can tell us with confidence how to run our project but who don’t actually show us any code.

This is an usual problem with people participating in discussion over the Internet. I am sure those people mean well, but often they don't put enough effort into assessing the situation and underestimate its complexity before they decide to hit the keyboard. I've myself done it a number of times, but I am working on not doing it.

Advice for the people who are making all these suggestions and: A good way to see if you're talking out of your ass—unintentionally, of course—is to try to do what you're saying someone should do. Just try and re-write some parts of curl in Rust (you can go with a hip name like rurl). It's a good exercise to learn about the project you're rewriting, the language you're writing it in, and the problem domain. So, at the very least you'll get something out of it, and if your project is successful: even better!
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> What risk?

Financial, health, relationships, reputation, opportunity are some of the risks.

Are you saying that an employee getting a salary has the same risks as an entrepreneur?
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The EPL is roughly in the middle of MPL and LGPL in terms of copyleft scope. MPL requires per-'file' source sharing. EPL requires per-'module' source sharing. LGPL requires per-'module' source sharing and separating the module to permit the user to use/replace it without additional restrictions.

The one downside that EPL has is that, unlike MPL (without "Incompatible With Secondary Licenses" notice) or LGPL, it is incompatible with the GPL-family of licenses. It specifies different conditions for providing the source code and has a governing law clause (New York).

It is popular in the Java ecosystem (Eclipse, Clojure, etc).
Yeah. It feels like the New York Times is lying with statistics and fearmongering about "toxic sites" to encourage companies to only advertise with big sites - something that, as basically the biggest name in news in the US, they're positioned to benefit from financially.
BUT: They have a license already there (ASL2). Maybe they will publish the code...
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If I really ask retailers to scan a barcode to email me my receipt, aren't they going to look at me like a space alien?
I have never heard of such a thing.
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A screenshot likely doesn't tell people anything valuable about the app - it's not visually appealing, details would be infeasibly small on a business card, and a screenshot is impossible to search. As soon as you change the look of your app, all of your existing business cards suddenly have negative value.

Also, you're paying more for higher quality printing, and most people you give these cards too to will wind up forgetting about them or throwing them away. Maybe, instead of a screenshot, consider hiring someone to create a simple infographic better suited to the format, that could communicate the concept more clearly, and look good on less expensive stock.