skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great work. It’s a pleasure to use. A few questions:

1. Have you heard of Narro (narro.co)? It does the same thing, but it’s been around longer and has many integrations.

2. Can you share the tech stack currently powering your voice synthesis? Since it’s called PollyPodcast, are you currently using AWS Polly for TTS?

3. Is this something you intend to monetize?

4. It seems like you offer unlimited readings for free. Do you have an abuse prevention strategy? This could become a hole in your wallet if you’re paying for a charged-per-character TTS service.

5. Creating custom voices is a great differentiator. What are some problems you have to solve to create them and how is this effort progressing? Do you have quality and performance goals?
poor guy fell into the hype hole :(
The video mentions that CSS Grids are used in the production site for the NYTimes. See https://open.nytimes.com/bootstrap-to-css-grid-87b3f5f830e4.
Right. I was assuming that the context here was connections being initiated by the client (as most are).
Richard Sherman, one of the top NFL players and also a Stanford grad, is very outspoken about this, and agrees with you: https://www.si.com/2013/10/23/richard-sherman-seahawks-concu.... His argument is that at this point, everyone playing the game knows the risks, and is taking that into account when making their decision to play.

To your second point, there's a recent push to ban tackling at levels below high school football (and play flag football instead). The current theory is that it's not the big hits that cause brain damage, but all the smaller "sub-concussive" hits that happen on every play. Eliminating those until high school would hopefully limit the long-term damage of football, especially for kids who only play through high school or college. I don't think banning tackling at either of those levels is feasible, though; college football is a huge business itself, and a change as dramatic as eliminating tackling there would completely change the sport.
I've never really understood the appeal of football (or sports in general) myself - can it be made to be safer without removing whatever it is that appeals to the people that it appeals to?
And branding. If an user downloads your app he puts an icon with your logo on his phone screen, possibly near other people watching. That doesn't happen when he taps on a browser icon.
Not to mention that he also executes your code on his phone, code that almost always will ask for full access to media and contacts to be installed.
I disagree. It is possible to generate a wide variety of layouts using this and other purely declarative approaches. If producing a layout requires the use of "Turing-complete" semantics, then JavaScript is available for the purpose. I would argue if your layout becomes that complex you might consider simplifying.

There is a long-standing trend of adding scripting into declarative environments to allow greater capability. More often than not this becomes yet another avenue for exploitation by bad actors. As an industry we should learn from our mistakes and resist the use of executable code into static documents.
Just went through this - intuitive and helpful. I'll also add http://flexboxfroggy.com/
And also a great example of the saying, "you can lose a lot of money being right at the wrong time."

Or, "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
> So tests without symptoms should not be performed. But that also means you dont find things pre-emptively.

That's not entirely true. It's accepted you get periodic screening for many issues. (breast cancer, pap smear are probably the most common) Then there are tests you can easily request without any symptoms. (STI and allergy tests for example)

> But the MRI radiation gave you cancer

There's no MRI radiation. That's not how it works.
All that other creeps are stating that in their privacy agreement openly though.
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You can't really live at 2% bodyfat. Even top bodybuilders "only" get down to like 4-5% for competitions. Plus you'll be weak and small. I wouldn't be surprised if 300 lb football players are more like 20%.
I wish I could upvote this more as I think it's an important point. When evaluating quality of jobs (not matter blue collar or white), agency is one of the important points behind job satisfaction.
I never seem to be able to think of intelligent questions when I suddenly have a rare opportunity to ask someone cool - so may I just say it's really awesome to see you commenting about this on HN?
51k going to an accountant in your community is probably a more moral way to spend your money than 50k going to fund a war.

If one is going to judge a client's morality by his eagerness to spend more money than his tax bill in order to avoid paying that bill, that same moral lens needs to be applied to the accountant knowingly charging his client more than the client would save in taxes.
I'd say that the hardening is the overwhelming motivator there. That's the reason to be on a huge node. If you're not worried about radiation, you could shrink the same design, making it cheaper and faster and have larger safety margins all at the same time.
> We are talking about an economic problem.

It is a societal problem. This system doesn't have to be economically succesful by itself, so it's not an economic problem first.

> And if you dont care about quality of life, why would you enter a debate about rising cost of healthcare?

Hmmm..What? You probably misunderstood me... I do care about quality of life, and that's why I am shocked by you putting economic success before anything else.

The equivalent of medicare in many european countries is not economically successful and loses money every year. But so what? You balance that from some other budgets, or raise more tax.
the point of such a service is not to make money or to break even. The point is to substantially improve the quality of life of citizens by allowing them to seek the care they need.
It won't change quickly enough, people will simply stop playing it, and eventually stop watching it as well. I've already stopped watching NFL football (mostly, it's hard to completely cut off from a team I've followed since childhood), as it just makes me too uncomfortable to watch. The big hits don't feel exciting anymore, just gruesome now that I know the reality of how unsafe it is. And I don't plan to let my children play it. Many people are of the same mind, and I think the tide will turn eventually.
Regarding the age, the tools were found via excavation in soil layers that have a known geological age range determined via Geochronology[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geochronology
I've been thinking about getting a job in US (San Diego, from Europe), my field, perfect match and all, pay is much better if you compare absolute value in USD but after reading about all that stuff about US it seems like after paying taxes, rent and for everything else I'll end up with jack shit with the risk of bankruptcy if I broke my leg or sth (being sued for some bs etc).

Scary stuff.

But at the same time, my friend is living there (Chicago, I think, northwest for sure) and is doing fine with less than 50k gross a year. I don't know what to believe when I'm reading about US. Internet makes it look like a crazy place to live but is it classical "you only remember failures"/ "if you aren't poor it's fine" or something? What would you (US citizens) advise?
What is this supposed to become, exactly? Google hasn't said much about it and speculators are making big claims like how this will replace ChromeOS and Android. I don't see that happening any time soon considering how deeply entrenched both OSes are, but Google's dedication mixed with the lack of comments makes me think again.
How can it be the biggest bubble in human history when it peaked around 200bn and had nowhere near that much actual cash pumped into it? Minuscule compared to the dotcom and housing bubbles. A bubble, sure, but biggest ever doesn't make sense.
"Dwarves"? Is that just the closest word you have for the rendering, or is that really a thing in their local mythology? I thought they were strictly a Germanic/Norse staple. I've never seen them mentioned in Hinduism.
Medical practice management software. (we run the medical practices as well) If we made software that was accessible to the general public I would hesitate to only use CSS grid.
Porches are still modest for a mega-billionaire...
The dot com bubble saw 1.7 trillion vanish. Bitcoin total market cap is less than 200 billion. Obviously this is hyperbole and can be ignored.
Why would you think that? What evidence did you have before this? I think you are relying on hindsight a little too much.
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This just means that the iPhone X is not going to be next year's low-cost phone. Neither the original iPhone nor the iPhone 5 were kept in production a second year.

It got distorted through a game of telephone into the iPhone X being "cancelled." Or rather, it got distorted by people looking to gin up a sensational, yet false story.
So if the title was "Google Fuchsia early preview" then that would be fine.
Medicare spends less than private insurers; despite the bureaucracy and regulations it's far more efficient than private insurers. Something like 98-99% of every dollar spent on Medicare is spent on treatment vs 85% for private insurers.

One of the reasons that many doctors hate Medicare is the paperwork associated with patients. (This paperwork only exists because of the bad actors who bill Medicare for non-existent health services.) But they stick with it because unlike private insurers, Medicare will pay out for services legitimately performed, which is why nearly every doctor who drops Medicare patients ends up taking them back within 2 or 3 years.
Also true for Android, but the king in this case is a bit more easy going.
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> "The outermost layer deforms like a car bumper, yielding when it's hit and slowing impact forces."

The helmets would need frequent changing, or else they might look like demolition derby cars by halftime.
Sure and appendectomies are very expensive. But why do you dismiss the OPs concern for the outrageous cost of anti-venom?

Perhaps because the cost of something as rare, expensive to produce and perishable as anti-venom is sort of justified, whereas a relatively routine operation like and appendectomy is not?

Ok, that's fine. But it still stands that snake bites cost 150K and that's a lot of money!
Maybe I'm weird but it seemed like there was always just too much stuff being published daily? The Verge is like this too. Anyway, the stuff I did manage to get at was always good.
Yes, or, more specifically, stress. Mild TBI is diagnosed primarily through patient-reported symptoms, and is notoriously hard to confirm with imaging.
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plus, giving it to kids would drive up the price for the farmers.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/01/indias-f...
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Calling bitcoin a bubble is the most tiresome cliche in history.
In Duff McKagan's book, he says that in early Guns n Roses days, they would get fish antibiotics to treat their STDs. So this goes way back.

See https://smile.amazon.com/Its-So-Easy-other-lies-ebook/dp/B00...
Assuming you're in the states, here's labeling information: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety...

And specifically, information about organic labeling for livestock (one requirement of which is no antibiotics): https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Organic%2...
This is not my field of expertise, but why wouldn't we just run LIDAR scans of as much of the earth's surface as possible?

Is it prohibitively expensive at this point? Is the computation [relatively] expensive? Is there a sound reason we don't race to do more?

I get the feeling this kind of data could inspire generations of new archaeologists and historians.

There are also some pseudo-archeological and pseudo-historical claims that might be put to rest (or less likely, cause a revolution in human self-knowledge). Eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_pyramid_claims

I would also love to see plots like Cahokia (and others like it) scanned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia
Short review: Another OS written in C/C++ that will have a million and one bugs over the next 3 decades.
So this is an interesting idea, however, I suspect it may be quite problematic on the receive side if implemented.

Once upon a time, I used to write network protocol sniffers. I basically simulated a partial TCP stack, in order to allow higher layer protocols decode traffic that was out of order. If a packet was lost in the capture, it's basically the same thing as the "lying ack" in the article, where the real endpoint would ack a frame the capture engine never saw.

This becomes really difficult to process, because TCP simulates a stream, and if you lose a packet, and skip some bytes in the stream, where you pick up and continue may not be the beginning of a new message. So you also need to create heuristics, on how do you discard received data, until you get to a point where you can understand the stream again, and continue processing.

As others have commented, UDP is likely a better choice here, as ordering semantics can be added, but on packet loss, the next received packet can always be parsed. Or look at SCTP, which allows turning on/off in order deliver, and I believe through an extension allows turning on/off reliability (but I'm not sure if this ever got implemented).
FPGAs are used in all of the mid to high end test equipment: things like signal generators, digital multimeters, spectrum analysers, osciloscopes and such.
It’s been shown that leaving holes in the sequence space isn’t good for middleboxes [0]. Wanting TCP to behave more like UDP is a reasonable goal (e.g., for reachability), but you throw the benefits away if 20% of connections are disrupted by middleboxes. Other approaches, like Minion [1] or TCP Hollywood [2], see deployability because they adhere to the assumptions made about TCP by middleboxes.

[0]: “Is it Still Possible to Extend TCP?” - http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/ucacmha/papers/extend-tcp.pdf

[1]: Minion - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iyengar-minion-protocol-01

[2]: TCP Hollywood - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7497221/
Tackling in rugby involves wrapping the legs and immobilizing the player rather than slamming into them as hard as possible. (Maybe inaccurate but that's how I was taught to do it).
It's a shared responsibility. The NFL has devoted a lot of effort to hiding the reality of what the audience is watching. Now that we know fully how dangerous it is, it's our responsibility to stop watching it.
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>2% bodyfat

Do NFL athletes really have 2% bodyfat? That's elite bodybuilding physique, and only sustained temporarily for competition. I find it hard to believe that football players can compete with so little fat.
Hmm, perhaps you are right... I switched from consumer gear to more "enterprise-y" gear a few years back, so my data points may be a bit outdated.
what's confusing, am just saying try to reflect..
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Three-year-olds can purportedly open Youtube, find their favorite channel, and naivgate to a video without any prior instruction.

I think on HN a little while ago there was this study posted about how tribe of natives was given a box of tablets (with no prior exposure to them) and within a month were already hacking android.

These silly little abstractions are not needed and, indeed, are patronizing. More turds sticking their hands out for money.
I think I had to visit the doctor three times before they prescribed me it. The first time was too early to give me anything (I've had this issue multiple times so I went in the first day I had symptoms). The second time they gave me something less potent. The third time they gave finally gave me it. That comes to around 3x75(doctor visit)+3x10(gas)=$261. I can imagine it costing more if they lived farther from a doctor.
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Well, see my issue: https://github.com/dyu/ffi-overhead/issues/2
The flip side of that is if you're playing a large board quickly and the need to guess only emerges towards the end of a good run, sometimes you might want that last "help" button to save the last mine being a 50/50 shot

The final version of the game with the automation turned off actually plays identically bar that option.
That's fair. It's certainly the case that none of the numbers people have been providing are useful because you can't disentangle causes well enough to use them to support any particular position.
Depends where. In my country, no. In yours, apparently.
Exactly. I tend to criticize plans like this because of their essential similarities to current arrangements, not their differences.

The positive aspect is that it introduces democracy into the system (through control by officeholders), if only for the moment that it takes for power to recentralize (as any autonomy that the business has is lost due to patronage appointments from the central government or larger unions.) Maybe this could be prevented by handing control to the union of the workers in a particular company, or a particular location, rather than large unions that cover entire industries.
As far as I can tell, you seem to be agreeing with me.
"Taxing profits in moderation is not breach against democratic principles, but using the companies own money to take ownership over it is."

It's not the companies own money after it's been taxed. From then on it's actually the government's money.
If you get a job that offers insurance, you'll be fine. Unless you lose the job and don't have the money saved to pay for COBRA or a marketplace plan... So have emergency savings.
I think it is worth pointing out, China has literally 3 - 4x the market size compared to 5 years ago. Apart from India, I think globally all the important market has reached a point of near saturation.

The transcript in Apple conference call actually had a question similar. There are still new customers coming into the iPhone ecosystem, but the number suggest that users are now taking slightly longer cycle upgrading their Phones. So while in terms of market usage it is still expanding slowly, the unit sales is flat / stable.

For Android this is more of a problem, since there are larger number of people switching to iPhone then vice versa.
The argument could be made that high school and college football compensates players with social and sexual capital. It is an extremely effective way to become popular.
>So we ban child porn to try to curb the production of more of it. Its production is what is harmful,

We also ban computer generated child porn even though there is no victim involved in the production of that. If you use this deepfake technology and stick an 18 year old's face on a porn video it is legal but if you do the same thing with a 17 year old it isn't. The production of those two videos is the same. The only difference is the potential victim if the video became public.

>The real way to reduce this risk is to either spread the idea that all video is suspect, and you can't assume who you see on video is who it appears to be, or to perfect technology that can instantly detect when this system has been used.

That sounds great in theory, but people don't work like that. We are built to believe what we see. We all know that almost every magazine cover has been mercilessly Photoshopped and yet the images on those covers have still been shown to have a strong influence on people's own body image.
It's intent and emotion that I'm really interested in - which to the best of my knowledge, computer generation still isn't good at. (This is for VR games, so high quality voice acting is a priority)

Hence, if I could find a program which could reliably turn one actor's voice into another, I could use their acting ability, but with more characters and less requirement for them to "put on" voices. That's powerful because really good actors are thin on the ground, and also because trying to hold a different voice or accent can limit the quality of the main performance.
There is a certain logic to playing music. They did not know what would help the infected, but they certainly did know what would help everybody else:

Seeing a crowd flailing around to music is much less creepy than seeing a crowd flailing around to silence.
> Even Google's CAPTCHA was asking me recently to pick the "bridge" from the pictures. There was no bridge.

That's to be expected. It even says at the top of the challenge box: "If there's no match, just click next".

Negative reinforcement is reinforcement too.
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Demand for essential healthcare services is inelastic.
I wish I understood this years ago.. Would have saved me .. years
I do wonder about the shadow rate. My unemployment just ended by running out. Does that mean I'm now counted in that rate? If I had found work, I basically stop certifying for benefits to let them know I'm employed. No one has sent me a letter asking if I'm working or not. I have to assume there are a lot of folks out there in a similar situation.
Was going to say the same thing. It's a great resource for getting to grips with Grid.
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If you don't want to lose control of your company, don't issue public stock.

Once you do, and it is bought by someone else, it's not your company anymore. Why does it matter if it was bought by Berkshire-Hathaway, Vanguard, or by the government of Sweeden?
It's "Turing complete", named after the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
I don't think everyone is inclined towards that sort of activity.
That seems rather pedantic. At this point I'm curious enough to watch these "reviews", but I don't care enough to try it myself. I happy reviewers are showing off the work, whatever they call it, review, sneak peak, preview.