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I recently tried Pocket's TTS on my iPhone and found it to be pretty good. The person who recommended it suggested downloading the high-quality "Alex" voice, which is around 900MB. I have plenty of room on my phone right now so it wasn't a big deal—but I could see how others would not want to download this voice.

What do you find lacking about it? I've heard (first-hand) it sounds even better on Android. There are offline voices and also live-streamed voices, and it all sounded pretty decent to me.
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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've done it a lot, and we eventually ban such accounts.

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The cringey nature of the entire documentary is why it’s wonderful. “Kill screen coming up!” was a punchline in my house for years after we watched that. :D
Most my comments are not unsubstantiated. However, when comes to Apple. I am not going to be nice. I don't like how they closed off their ecosystem is. I hate how they do stupid things in for sake of fashion. They claim to innovative, but really just repackage existing tech, and force you into their ecosystem. It's just an attempt of vendor lock in. Then you have mindless sheeple drooling over their products. However, I would prefer apple just went the way of the dodo.
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the point of the study was that people claim these imaginations of floating about the table were 'proof' of near death experiences, or out of body exp., but inability to read the cards was to show they probably were not really doing that, they were just imaginging that. It's a way to counter the 'how could someone imagine that'. thing.
"Pipenv solved the most annoying problem Python had before: inconvenient version isolation. Dependencies were installed globally by default, and virtualenv was too cumbersome to use easily. Pipenv solves all of those headaches."

I've recently started using pipenv, and it has made me very happy. Ruby has very polished tools for managing interpreter versions as well as dependency management, and npm is OK, but before pipenv, Python was a slightly different headache every time that I had to set up a project.

Basic usage of pipenv is like Bundler or npm, so it was very easy to get started. It also has some extra features that Bundler doesn't have, and I haven't yet tried: installing Python interpreters on demand, built-in project code style checking, and security vulnerability checks on dependencies:

https://docs.pipenv.org/advanced/
> If Tesla made a van, I would have strongly considered it

I'm certain the reason they don't is that it would either have a sub-100 mile range (like the actually existing Nissan NV200e electric van), or it would have a 10 000 lbs curb weight and cost well north of $200k.

I mean, at highway speeds air resistance is what you're spending your gas/electricity on fighting against.

For a Model S, measured drag coefficient and projected frontal area imply that to maintain 70 mph for one hour you're spending 10 kWh.

For a Ford Transit van, the drag coefficient doubles and the projected area increases by a whopping 5x, so you're looking at 100 kWh spent to maintain 70 mph for one hour.

This implies an electric full-size van with the range of a Model S would require at least 600 kWh of battery capacity installed, giving a battery weight alone of 7500 lbs (3500 kg)!!!
Yes, and if it could be reduced, that would be great. The meat industry is rather more barbaric though. I used to eat meat, but gave it up aged 11 after seeing how the animals are treated.
Could you please not take HN threads on generic ideological tangents? They're off topic here because like all generic threads, they're predictable, and like all political threads they lead to flamewars.

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It'll happen when the average user stops caring even moreso about privacy, and when an always-recording microphone doesn't drain battery intensively.
Anyone who's tried to explain to another person how to do something on a computer (or what to do with a computer) and eventually, in exasperation, said "here just let me drive", knows that voice UI is not the (only) UI of the future.
It's simple. Remains from Keezhadi tell that Tamil ancestors had no religion. If it is true, they need to start finding the origin of Sanskrit.
Facebook has an important role to play in education
It's interesting to me that they don't mention Miraculin, which has long known to cause sour things to taste sweet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculin

edit: I didn't find any nice connection between Otopetrin and Miraculin in the literature either... possibly because miraculin operates on the tongue's sweetness detectors which then override the sour taste like sugar in lemonade.
A wise old man used to tell me "Silence is the only good reply to stupidity."
Just imagine if they'd had social networking then. It would have been a GamerGate-type fracas.
The problem is not that it is hard to compete with free, but rather it's inconvenient to make small payments to people you think provide value.

Not to mention no-one wants to sign up with their credit card info to a few dozen different sites just to do that.

An automated system built in to the browser that bills a user determined amount monthly and apportions that to sites based on usage solves most of that.

How much would you pay a month to have no advertising and no invasive tracking on the web and support content that you like?

I'd be happy to spend $5-10 dollars doing that - I'm already spending $60 a month just for Internet access in the first place. If enough people sign on to that, and enough creators can use that as a revenue model then it will provide a way to fund content without the need for advertising.
Just include that in the sum. Back to zero.
I am also a happy NG subscriber.
You'd do well to look up SummoningSalt's video on the World Record Progression of King Kong. He actually discusses the issues with KoK, and several other concerns - and all of it with a genuine passion for gaming.
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Interesting. However, none of those are slips of the tongue but rather what's referred to as "slips of the ear". A slip of the tongue is often called a "tip of the slongue" — an example of exactly that.
Please don't vent like this here. Even if you're right, it just encourages more venting, which is guaranteed to destroy this website even faster.

Instead, you should just flag the article and move on. You can also email us (hn@ycombinator.com) in egregious cases.
> Rust is great for writing high-performance code, or code that needs to be parallelised within a single process. However if performance is not a concern then a statically typed language with a GC is usually a better choice.

Are there Rust programmers who disagree with that?
Summoning Salt is one of the best gaming youtubers I've run across. He describes what he's talking about in both a technical and end-result sense, and really makes a viewer understand the passion for games that these players have.
Coming out of the shell
Wow: “Turns out, the Colonists were not the only ones to chafe at taxes on tea. In England, the tea tariff had been 119 percent [...]”

Wow, one wonders if such rates were just imposed to deliberately bankrupt the companiss importing the stuff.

Also, weren’t many of the “liberal” ideas about state and taxation borne from that same time? Perhaps we should contextualize their contempt for state and taxes not to a general principle but to 119% levels...
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I’d look into moxies coin over telegrams. If you want privacy and cryptography done right you go to moxie. (Signal)
This working group literally just proved that a significant subset of Rust is safer than any comparable subset of C++. This isn't a matter of opinion. What more proof do you actually want than a formal proof? I seriously wonder what people think the whole point of this paper was.
I read the article before posting, it's not reflexive.
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Just an FYI, Marco Arment, the original author of Instapaper was also the first employee and architect at Tumblr- where this article is hosted.
Playing music at work comes with some pretty weird legal implications so I can totally see why some companies would block online music services so they don't accidentally crate public performances of copyrighted works.
It could be that your blog content is of high quality, interesting and yet is worth no money at all. Some things just can't be "monetized".

I can't think of any blog that I would pay to read... I pay for books.
I don't like the third edition as much as the second one.

The reason for that is added chapters about mobile usability. That addition made the book a bit noisier and somewhat hard to follow.
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I have a PayPal tip jar. You can give as little as a dollar.

It isn't exactly raking in the dough. Most people just do not want to pay. The lack of a convenient means to pay small sums is an excuse to justify that. If it weren't, I should have more income.

If half of the 40k page views one piece of mine got kicked in a dollar, even after PayPal took it's cut, I would have had $13,400.

But, no. Most people don't go "That totally enriched my life. I shall give a dollar for this info."
There are carton "eggs" that you pour. The McMuffin really is made from fresh cracked eggs, though. I think they are delicious.
Please don't use HN for political battle. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

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The Australian equivalent is a "lad". As in "eshays adlay".
We generally cannot prove things about physics in a mathematical sense, but assuming that our understanding of quantum mechanics is correct, every interaction of an entangled particle causes its entanglement to "spread" to the interacting object. That's just a property of the math involved in describing quantum systems.

This means that once you have macroscopic interaction, the entanglement basically starts to spread at the speed of light, i.e. it'll quickly spread to humans.

Once you are entangled with something, you can no longer observe the effects of that entanglement (you are no longer an external observer), and it looks as if the entanglement was destroyed.
So, another convenient justification for not supporting internet content while absolutely consuming it regularly.

How novel.

/s
Voice as a user interface doesn't scale. If you have a lot of people in a small space (an office, a coffeeshop, a metro train, etc) then voice just won't work. From a technical perspective it could work with good direction microphones to isolate the user, and excellent voice recognition to eliminate accidental activations from other people, but the cost of those things would be prohibitive, and it'd still fail if the background noise level was too high. Where voice really fails is the simple fact that a lot of people would have issues dictating a sensitive or intimate message with their voice in public.

There will always need to be a second screen- or keyboard-based UI. That doesn't mean voice won't be hugely important, but it does mean it'll never be the whole story. Consequently, I don't see it being 'the future' of UIs.
This might be the beginning of the “Trough of Disillusionment” for Voice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
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> Have you been living under a rock lately, or are you just pulling the oldest trick in the psychopath book

This is so far outside what's acceptable on HN that I've banned this account. Would you please not create accounts to break the site guidelines with?

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At the end of the paper there's a specific hint what was behind NSA's non-wilingness to be explicit, at that time, as Crypto AG from Switzerland is mentioned.

Wikipedia has some details about Crypto AG which are a good afterword to the DMR's article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG#Compromised_machines
It's a hard sell not only in Canada or US, quite a bit of Europe has more than enough space as well. "Modern city" is good you want to optimise for dense living and certain lifestyles. Yet it fails for quite a few people and then quite a bit of it doesn't make sense. I guess the solution would be to design cities to allow both kinds of people to leave at peace. Personally I like German model. Dense urban centers with liveable country side. Looks like both kinds of people are pretty happy and they can sustain quite a lot of population too.
> Doesn't the existence of countless solutions … imply that it's not a solved problem?

Is this a serious question?

It seems like you're letting a bit of bias against the JS ecosystem invade your thought process here. There are countless solutions because they range from generic, such as a simple routing helper, to deeply integrated, such as react-router.

> rather than relying on built-in browser behavior

You mean the built-in behavior of navigating away from the current page? The single page application?
Yep, it should integrate nicely with virtual reality and driverless cars! Just around the corner...!
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I tried Apple Music for 6 months, and spent that time diligently training it to my tastes. My latest "favourites mix" had 12 songs that I had to mark as "dislike" after all that training. Likewise the "for you"playlists are garbage - just because I like a couple of songs by guitar bands doesn't mean I want to listen to hours and hours of them.

Apple Music on Apple Watch 3 is amazing - leaving a phone at home is strangely liberating.

But, for me, the big advantage of Spotify is I don't always need to think about what I want to listen to - I can pick an artist and listen or I can be lazy and just hit a Daily Mix which plays stuff I really like. Asking Apple Music to play "some reggae" or whatever invariably ends up with it playing a load of music I really don't like, even after all that training.
Usefull post indeed. Would be interested to read more about this..!!! - Mongrov.
Could you please stop posting these? They're off topic and the rules on HN are settled. See sibling comment's quote from FAQ, plus:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

This solution has turned out to work well in practice because, although paywalls with workarounds are annoying, it's possible to work around them.
Everyone pays for what they value. To me that's e-mail a magazine, music, movies and sometimes apps.

My list probably won't include any blogs, SaaS or most news sites. I don't see any contradiction, if those content creators can't get someone to pay for their content they will have go either give it away for free or stop producing. Option 1 is what I'm doing.
> Apple’s chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, told The Guardian last month that he would not let his nephew on social media

Does anyone else wonder how old the child in question is? Much of the media attention has been framed as "Tim Cook wouldn't let a kid use social media", ignoring the fact that the statement was about one child—not all children. We can't really draw meaningful conclusions about Cook's philosophy without knowing if this kid is 9 or 17.
https://mongrov.com/
Do you really think they'd be allowed to call it an Egg McMuffin if it didn't have real eggs? It would be a pretty clear-cut case of false advertising.
The trouble with this idea is that I don't WANT a subscription to (say) The NY Times. Perhaps two or three times a month there's an article there that I'd sort-of like to read. That does not justify the $5/month subscription they'd like (or however much it is). And if they put a stumbling block in my path (say, maybe, a paywall or some such) then I'll forego the article. Chances are I'll find it quite easily somewhere else anyway, since mostly they're just regurgitating press releases and wire feeds.

There's a mismatch between the value they ask and the value they offer. It's a deep and wide gulf and results from wildly mismatched wants, needs and assumptions.
How was the experience overall?
Accessibility != mandatory (literally the point of my post)

Anyone != everyone (literally the point of my post)

And "qualified" != anyone who can squeeze out a 20 on the ACT. Certainly far south of 70+%.

> labor market doesn’t pay you for the useless subjects you master ...Girard-style mimetic crises

Well hell, maybe try less Girard and more Fourier?
It's the British version of white trash.
Maybe not exactly voice, but natural language UI is definitely the future. It would be awesome if I could talk to git and tell it to do exactly what I want in English. Instead of rote-learning arcane incantations.
I believe I have seen some publications that will take one time donations. I certainly do on my sites.

Again, it isn't exactly raking me rich, so to speak. So I sincerely think this is primarily an excuse.
The same thing is happening in Iran. I didn't know it still exists but then I just learned that it is so rampant that Iranian shopping companies may very much start their pyramid section of their business officially very soon. More than anything I think we should have a proper education for the public about this. Funny thing is employees some of these companies hire have to pay the company if they wanna work in there, and the company that I am talking about had something close to 20 people working in there as far as I could see!
Easy. Ask T-mobile to be included. It's free for the provider and from everything I know, relatively easy for a provider of legal video or audio content.
I have to call BS on this. even the article itself contain 'While it is impossible to definitively trace a causal link between land use restriction and fertility, the results here suggest that the two are strongly related in the data.'

A correlation is shown, but no causation.

If I needed to speculate, even without resorting to hidden variable impacts, I'd say the market for 'exclusive' housing in less child friendly environments would tend to be dominated by singles and couples with large disposable incomes, potentially resulting from being more career than family focused.

'We can't financially afford having another baby, so we wont' does not seem to hold at all as a rule for primary driver in both present and historic worldwide reproduction data. If anything, it's the reverse.
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> You can do that now

You really can't. There are no browsers I know of (besides brave) that make automated payments to content creators based on how much I visit their site.

Not to mention I don't want a dozen different subscriptions to a dozen different services.

And I don't want a subscription to the nytimes the washington post or the wsj, because I barely read those sites (I'm not from the US so much of their content is not that relevant to me) but I might be happy to pay $0.10 for article once in a blue moon that I do find interesting on those sites - but there's no way to do that.

I do put my money where my mouth is and I do support people I think make valuable content, but current systems are not scalable to all the content I currently read on the web. Things like what Brave is doing solve that problem.
I'm impressed, being content is as difficult as it is laudable. Do you contribute back to society in some other ways?
Not the OP, but replying to offer a suggestion in this respect.

I'll often do something similar to this, where I have a CLI tool that I'm not ready to deploy server-wide yet, and has hefty dependencies.

The pattern I use is to have a wrapper shell script that calls:

docker run -it --rm --volume "$(pwd)/$1:/file_to_process:z" --user $(id -u) container-image /opt/command_to_run /fileToProcess

This runs "/opt/command_to_run /fileToProcess" inside a container as the current uid, mounting the parameter to the shell script as "/file_to_process" inside the container.

The :z mount parameter may or may not be needed depending upon whether you have SELinux enabled or not (by default, SELinux prevents countainers accessing any file on the host, and :z changes the SE context to allow access). I don't know if this is the case with EL6 tho.

The -t parameter shouldn't be used if your script is running in a pipeline (it creates a pseudo-tty). So it may be worth having some kind of conditional to remove this.

The wrapper I use also has a conditional to add the "$(pwd)" prefix to the call parameter only if the parameter is a relative path.
They have a weekly "favourites mix", "new music mix", and "chill mix".

In my experience the choices that Apple Music make are extremely poor, even after months of training. Spotify seems to know what I like, Apple Music has no idea.

(Also Apple Music has nothing like the Daily Mixes, which also work really well for me; it suggests a daily set of playlists for you, but again, Apple Music doesn't seem to have learnt what I like, so these are pretty useless)
"Bad bots" are reading HTML source code and will find your email address anyway.
From a moderation point of view, Apple is not the issue here, the issue is your posting unsubstantive comments to HN. We ban accounts that won't stop doing that, so please stop doing that.

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Instapaper with my first iPad was the best thing ever the year it came out. It was just so convenient (and still is, we just got used to it). When people asked me why I got an iPad, an odd device for its time, I said: e-mail and Instapaper.

Back then, people were not accustomed to build tablet-friendly websites and even though Safari was very good, Instapaper was in league of its own when it came to plain old reading, especially when offline.
This theory is cool, but I don't think it works, all things considered. PDEP and PEXT should have the same unfused behavior as SHLX, since they also do not change any flags, but they _do_ fuse. BEXTR should (or could) fuse, but doesn't. So I don't know.
So pretty much the exact antithesis of a real cryptocurrency, then. A form of e-currency (is that too Olde Schoole?), issued by fiat is not what cryptocurrencies are about -- the very point of them is to take the issuance and control out of the hands of sovereigns.
National swipes are not allowed on HN, regardless of which nation. Please don't do it here.

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There's no free tier, apart from a one-off trial, so the preinstall doesn't count for much.

The CarPlay and Apple Watch apps and Siri integration are the main advantages AM has over Spotify (Spotify's CarPlay app is so buggy it's dangerous).
Fascinating article! I wish a similar change had come over Ancient Greek studies, too. My experience was that intro classes was an impatient way to half-read Platon. I once asked our instructor, a TA who was wrapping up his PhD in Classics, how to say “It’s raining” in A. Greek and he didn’t have a clue, such a question never occurred to him. And studying later texts, such as the Souda was not even considered.
Finally some are adding coreboot on recent motherboards