skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a nice gesture but why not email them directly with the contact info on the website? Maybe I'm being a prig but this post seems like an ad, free or not
Building codes being copyrighted is fine. But if I want to make my own building code, but have all existing builders be able to easily transition, then I must necessirily be making a copy.
goophabet?
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What open source TTS is as good as Google Cloud?
That's entirely weak.
I agree that UX is an important intersection of engineering, but I feel like - in the context of education - institutions will not stick to your informed/moderate definition. Most "artists" I know would totally suck at UX. In today's world where interface design is embedded into every team's workflow, and where we have versioned stylesheets and designers extracting CSS... I'd say modern UX designers are definitely under the T for Technology rather than arts.
One of these things is not like the other. And it kind of defeats the purpose of the acronym. It's like changing FAANG to FAANGG because you care about and like GitHub. Even though it's not in the same genre as the others.

I'm all for promoting the arts, but this idea is silly.
Yes, my assumption was the acronym STEM existed because in university, many of the core classes are shared in STEM fields. I did not consider the intersection of those fields being the real idea.

I suppose that in that case, STEAM makes sense. Making technology beautiful is definitely something a company like Apple has always kept in mind. Thanks for the response!
Here's another scary GAN proof of concept [0]. In this case, researchers transferred someone's face in real time to facial expression and mouth movements of public figures. Combined with DeepMind's new tech that seems to be able to produce human voice with believable candor and inflection [1], you could make some very convincing fake footage.

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

[1]https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/expressive-speech-sy...
This is a truly awful idea. You can't add an "A" to "STEM," you can introduce a new word, "STEAM" with a different meaning, but the word "STEM" will still exist, and will still have the same meaning. If you're talking about "adding meaning to a word" what you're really talking about is prescribing language. I.e. telling people don't express this idea "STEM," I find that idea uninclusive, express the idea I want instead. It's especially egregious in this case because STEM is the opposite of arts, so you're destroying as much meaning as possible. Down this road is a world where everyone is "included" and completely unable to communicate with each other because you've suck all the meaning out of the words to make them feel more inclusive.
Ok now I have to share a story...

The company in question had a rather large on site server room (raised floor, fire suppression) and a massive generator to deal with any power issues as well as redundant connectivity. This room was literally the backup incase their "real" data center went off line.

The problem is that the room was "convenient" so there were plenty of things that lived ONLY there (mistake one) -

When the substation for the office went, and the generator started everything looked fine. The problem was that no one had ever run the generator for that long... after a few hours it simply crapped out (over heated, problem two).

A quick trip to home depot got them generators and extension cords that let them get the few boxes that were critical back up - however one box decided to not only fault, but to take it's data with it.

This is when I got a rather frantic call "did I still have the code from the project I did?" - they offered to cut me a check for $2000 if I would go home right then and simply LOOK for it.

Lucky for them I had it - and the continuity portion of the DR plan got revisited.

In hind sight after I said I had the code, I probably could have asked them to put another zero on the end of the check and they would have done it just to be a functioning business come 6am.
It appears not, if such a bad bug can get through all the way to release.
The technology, engineering and applied mathematics fields have applications that benefit real-world industries, whereas theoretical science, mathematics and art are more academic pursuits with little proportional real-world investment or degree of financial assurance. If STEM is meant to be an acronym for high-paying high-demand jobs, it seems imprudent to change the definition just for inclusivity's sake. Changing the meaning of words isn't going to alter reality.
Ding-ding-ding, this is the non-bs answer.
https://www.boston.gov/ looks pretty modern.
It doesn't look like he was jobless the whole time.

At 3:01 in the hearing, they get into a discussion regarding Wylie pitching the company he was at in January, 2016, to the VoteLeave people (but not being accepted). Wylie was doing something in Canada at the time though.
I don't like it, but if I was going to add an extra thing it would be more focused and be "design" which can already be part of STEM courses.

So Architecture / Industrial Design / Ux

etc.
Wow Generating the initial wire-frame scenes with the shot-generator feature looks amazing!
Congratulations Daisy! This work is really impressive (and quite fun).
I did say it was "a quip" - and I'm sure quite a few people here understood the context - apologies for those who didn't.

For me, it's kind of a geek culture equivalent of a pop culture reference - not quite as ubiquitously recognised as "Oh my god! They killed Kenny!", but probably (in this audience) as recognisable as 'Quoth the Raven, "Eat my shorts!"'
Thanks, appreciate your support!
Same here! If I'm only in a country for a couple of weeks, I'll just stick with Fi. If I'm there longer I'll pick up a local sim as it's usually way cheaper.

Do you find you need to use Speedify and tether often?
Yes, as project's contributor I find your claims blatantly inaccurate and offensive. That said, my way of handling them is most likely far from being humble.
That was going to be my comment exactly
I ended up using a reseller in Australia to get an "EE" SIM for an upcoming trip - feeling like I've been ripped off here as I paid significantly more than $10

Most of the prepaid SIMs I saw had heavy restrictions on tethering - can you point me in the right direction?
We can't measure the number of security bugs, we're measuring how many get fixed. Fewer eyeballs on Windows would imply fewer discoveries, and fewer bugfixes as a result.
> Is it now not PC to copy and paste exact quotes from people? The rules change so often...I can’t keep up.

You brought it up in the context of questioning his motives and credibility. By the way, I'm a big admirer of folks like Jonathan Haidt and Jordan Peterson, just to give you an idea of where I'm coming from. I hate PC. But I also can't stand ad hominem attacks, and a very significant part of your comment discussed things that have no bearing on your argument.

> With regard to the rest of your comment, again, my comment was in response to his Palantir claim. Did he present any evidence of his Palantir claim?

There's turned out to be a ton of evidence to back up his Cambridge Analytica claims. And his Palantir claims just came out today. On the basis of those two facts alone, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. If he's lying, I'm sure it will come out. But I'm skeptical he's making this all up.
Buried deep in the marketing page is a dynamic shot generator powered by typing in keywords?! I don't know much about video production but this seems insanely cool.
Grammar police warning: The comma in “if it doesn’t crash, the bug is present” actually makes the intention more difficult to understand.
Unless, you know. Fog. But there's never fog... in... SanFra....
I don't get why you are being downvoted. Affinity Photo is fantastic software.
Is there any way I could get a decent KPN SIM prepaid while travelling (I'm not a resident)?
I think the WINE people are probably looking for your help, for some reason they still seem to think there's a few differences between the two. They'll be happy to know they've been wasting their time.
Code written for one will fail for the other, and negates the whole point of interoperability. Therefore the method signature should not be copyrightable
I put it down to lack of openness to a wider review than just Microsoft engineers.
I think it's stupid. Once you add Art, what is the point of even calling out the category?
I think they mistyped "100" as "81"
of the 6 person ceremony we have ZCash founder, ZCash technical advisor (Andrew Miller), ZCash CTO (Nathan Willock). My bad. 3 of the 6 (possibly +1 because one is still unknown). I mis-remembered. Arguably the person from NCC isn't conflict free as they were paid directly by ZCash.
I'm confused: The article states that AV's may be 90% safer than humans by 2035, but their chart still projects around 30% of the deaths instead of 10%. Am I missing something? I don't see any reasoning given for the discrepancy.
First note that I said the it is not impossible to treat different countries differently. I will also grant you that North Korea is objectively a worse place than the USA for the people living there. But we are debating whether North Korea should be allowed to have nuclear weapons, not how they run their country or treat their people. If the USA can justify their nuclear weapons with foreign threads, then North Korea can certainly do the same.

If we still conclude they should not or must not have nuclear weapons, and I tend to agree with that, then we have essentially three options. We can nicely ask them to stop and optionally offer some kind of reward or compensation if they do what we want. If that does not work, we can impose sanctions on them and we can do so without any additional justification [1], if we don't want to trade with them because they have nuclear weapons, that is our decision alone, it does not really matter what our reasons are. Obviously some objective justification would make us look much better.

If that still doesn't work we can either either give up and let them have nuclear weapons or we can use force against them, whether sabotaging centrifuges or bombing reactors. But now we need a solid justification for our actions unless we are willing to accept that the same actions against us would be equally justified. Also note that we are just eroding the sovereignty of countries.

We could treat the world as a kind of democracy, if most countries [2] agree that a specific thing is not okay, then we are legitimized to enforce this with all means necessary. We may or may not be able to objectively argue that nuclear weapons in the hands of North Korea are an exceptional danger but that doesn't really matter because our legitimization comes from the majority vote and not from any good reasons. It would of course again make us look much better if we could come up with some reasonable objective justifications for why some countries may and others may not have nuclear weapons.

There are of course also implications here, for example if the majority of the countries decided to ban nuclear weapons altogether [3], then any state including the USA would have to give up their nuclear weapons.

[1] There are of course complications, we may, for example, very well punish innocent citizens for the actions of a few at the top of the state.

[2] Maybe weighted by population or something along that line.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_N...
I wonder if speedify is detected by the carriers - most SIMs outside my country appear to have heavy tethering restrictions.
Perhaps we've just been looking in the wrong place for it. Spending all this time in laboratories, when we had it all along in the centre of our solar system.
Imagine teaching these voices to sing. Something like DeepMind WaveNet Song Generator.

You upload your music to the cloud, set some parameters (genre, tempo, emotion, etc) and a bunch of lyrics and the thing will spit out awesome vocals for you.
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Hate it. It's just an indication that we don't know how to talk about education. How is STEAM not basically just "education" itself? As someone pointed out, only the humanities are missing, so surely it will soon be SHTEAM, or METAHS or...actually METAHS sounds pretty good.
https://riscv.org/
Do you find a lot of carriers blocking / limiting tethering?
There's a big difference between 100ft to the nearest road vs 5 miles to the BART station. Last mile transportation is important, even if constrained to fully mapped roads.
Oh god, I really don't hope we're settling on webpack. Unless you just want to pull the ladder out from web devs with mediocre machines (we don't all have californian salaries).
TempleOS.
At least one person got triggered by “Trump was a better candidate.”

(That’s an observable fact, since he won)
With space being so vast, and the telescope looking at such a tiny fraction of the sky, I'm sure scientists wouldn't mind having more than one. I'm not super familiar with this, but I remember hearing that getting time on Hubble for your experiment definitely wasn't easy. Getting three times the available time surely has to be a huge positive for research, no? Not only that, having a second source of data will be critical in making sure measurements aren't flukes.
If I could add a personal number three to your list: most robots are far from robust. Running a robot becomes a full time job and require a dedicated guru to maintain it. The activation energy to use the equipment means that you must be desperate enough to deal with the pain rather than do the job manually.
People are saying that prebuilt PCs include graphics cards at MSRP.

If you mean Volta at a sane price, they didn't announce it today so it may be a while.
> At what point does the OS need to get out of the way and stop trying to earn money but just let the user use it?

~45 online services, and most of them are free. Extra cloud storage and third party content are the only things you pay for.
That'd be a reasonable response if Google didn't have a history of deliberately making things incompatible with other browsers for no discernible reason.

https://mashable.com/2013/01/05/google-maps-windows-phone
I don't think thiel and palantir would have lost that much if Clinton won. If the bulk of palantir revenue comes from DoD and intelligence community (IC) contracts, he cares about whoever will increase the DoD budget in general. No matter whether it is Bush or Trump or Reagan, a republican president almost always increases defense and IC spending and green lights new toys for them to play with. Defense contractors who don't care about Democrat or republican ideology simply care about their bottom line.
But with a used card, you have no way of knowing if it was indeed run that way.
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It sounds to me like at that point it is a made up new word for classical liberal arts (or, as others have said here, education). See explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16555514
Understood that you were not personally threatening my family's safety, but were cautioning against the mob.

Here's hoping that the pendulum swings towards sanity soon. Despite the walkouts in the news recently, there seems to be evidence that the youngest of us are beginning to reject the scary SJW mob mentality.

Happily, the filter bubbles on the internet, or in silicon valley, are not representative of the entire country, so there are areas the mob does not yet rule.
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I mean, depending on the quality of the website, he now can.
Republican president = higher DoD and intelligence budgets. Reliably predictable since the days of Nixon.
You're not alone in your sentiment. There are a few posts around here that do not "feel" like a typical Hacker News post. So my astro-turfing alarms are going off.

Granted, this looks like a good tool (at minimum: a very good marketing page), and the practice of astroturfing is unfortunately utilitarian (aka: it works ) in many contexts. But there's something offputting about some of the comments on this story right now.

With that being said: I'm not entirely sure if this tool is best suited for the hacker news audience? Its definitely more of an art tool, while the audience around here is more programmer / technical.
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> If an EU citizen is in the US, the GDPR doesn't apply.

Wrong. If a resident in a EU country is temporarily in the US, GDPR does apply.
Superscalar processing was unfortunately a major step forward in terms of performance.

The answer in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8389648/how-do-i-achieve... is interesting; I'm particularly fascinated by the temperature warning (the answer author's CPU got to 76C in testing).

My CPU's sitting at 30C right now. It maybe climbs to 48C if Chrome's being stupid, and 50+C if I'm doing something mildly taxing. I've never made it go beyond 60C IIRC.

So, modern CPUs are so efficient that they're simply just never hitting their maximum throughput. I think that's pretty incredible.

The sad thing about CPUs that don't use modern (superscalar, multi-stage, microarched, etc) design is that they just can't keep up.

And people's OCD about speed and (more frequently) parallelization nowadays drives what they'll buy. Something had better have a killer feature if it isn't fast or highly parallel.

So it's possible, but a huge headache. Whatever you built would likely be highly purpose-specific.
NVidia definitely does have an edge in GPU hardware. AMD Vega is roughly tied with NVidia Pascal in performance, but Vega consumes more power and came out two years later.
>More importantly, how different is mental manipulation compared to physical manipulation as commonly seen with dictatorship?

A number of futurists from many decades ago foretold this transition of power from brute physical force to subtle information warfare:

"World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. (p.66)"

-Culture is Our Business, Marshall McLuhan (1970)

"World War I a railway war of centralization and encirclement. World War II a radio war of decentralization concluded by the Bomb. World War III a TV guerrilla war with no divisions between civil and military fronts."

-Take Today: The Executive as Dropout, Marshall McLuhan (1972)

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_(Toffler_book)#...
You don't seem to understand what an API is.

The API of a BIOS is not the whole thing! It just specifies the interface by which the BIOS can be called by the OS.

For a crude analogy, consider the interface specification that most modern cars adhere to: there will be a steering wheel with a certain shape, size, and position relative to the driver's seat; there will be two or three pedals, with the accelerator on the right, the brake pedal to its left, and the clutch pedal, if present, to the left of the brake; etc. etc. None of this tells you whether the car runs on gasoline, diesel, CNG, or electricity, or whether the motor is in the back or the front, how many cylinders it has, etc. — all these are implementation details that do not usually affect the interface much.

The implementation of the BIOS — the code that actually performs its various functions — is clearly copyrightable, and always has been. But the API is just the specification of what those functions are and how they can be invoked. Imagine if one car manufacturer had been able to copyright the steering wheel and pedal arrangement that we're all familiar with!
Thank you for that, great alternative!
Expand? Webpack isn’t the cause of bad bundle times: awful Dependancy Trees are.

Even on an old machine I view bundle times of more than 30 seconds (without minification) as suspicious.
Hacking my brain to chill out with some trippy glasses
I would say I'm in the middle. It depends on how unethical/bad the orders are.
8% going on to trade on an exchange seems extremely hard to believe. Assuming most of them were ERC20, they could be traded on DEXs quite easily
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What happens if he doesn't pay?

I'm really interested in more details about this case.
I know right? If you never talk to these people they're essentially strangers that you know far too much about.
And X-COM, and Jagged Alliance 2, and Ultima VII
One team looked at the API and source code and everything and used that to develop the specification for the "clean" team to implement. That's the point. Collectively they didn't start with nothing.
You brought it up in the context of questioning his motives and credibility.

No, I brought up a quote in which he claimed to have created “Steve Bannon's psychological warfare mindf--k tool.”. That kind of crazy, megalomaniacal claim is directly relevant to his credibility. The extraneous stuff you have taken issue with was a part of that same sentence that he created. Now I’m supposed to splice his own sentences in order to avoid false allegations like yours?

Regardless, you’ve masterfully executed a standard tactic of the liberal media. Make a salacious, false allegation against someone that presents evidence that hurts your position - knowing that even when proven wrong later, a far smaller percentage of people will see or pay attention to that result than saw the initial allegation. Congratulations, you have graduated from the CNN/HuffPo school of journalism.
Diablo and Diablo 2 were the best games ever released. Period.
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check the "kate" samples: https://github.com/Kyubyong/speaker_adapted_tts

This is with 1 minute of audio and 10 minutes of training, which is crazy to me. Maybe it's not "as good", but it's very good, and free, and it will get better, faster, and cheaper quickly?
Yes and in turn operators just created new “European” plans.
A bunch of RPG games are going to have much better character voices after this.
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I said 'copyright'.
Mate, the sheer amount of LoC in any modern system is nearly uncountable. I have been a serious Gentoo aficionado for many years. My lap has been burnt for hours simply compiling Firefox or LO. They are both massive and they are only two apps.

If you want to SLOC Linux then download it https://www.kernel.org/ and help yourself. Why not look here as well https://www.freebsd.org and others - those are my mates, and good ones.
with lots of past success including getting ready to setup a colony on Mars

How is that a "past success"?
Is there a shortage of Arts graduates? Is there a shortage of Women/Minorities in Artistic careers?
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This looks awesome; a quick look at the source shows it uses Electron. How feasible would it be to package as a Chrome app? I would be awesome in education, but a lot of our students use Chromebooks.
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the download link https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder/download/
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That blurb is so bizarre. I wonder why they felt the need to include it. Still going to try this out for new projects though.
The comma placement "if clause1, clause2" is extremely common. In the above sentence, there is no other place it can go, other than nowhere at all.

"if, it doesn't crash ..." nope

"if it, doesn't ..." nope

"if it doesn't, crash ... " nope

"if it doesn't crash, the " yep!

"if it doesn't crash the, bug ..." nope

"if it doesn't crash the bug, is ..." nope

"if it doesn't crash the bug is, present" nope.

When it is present, it does help to separate the if and then, particularly in the absence of the word "then".

Without the comma, the prefix "if it doesn't crash the bug" can be scanned as a viable clause, only to find that the suffix becomes a fragment.
Ahh, I was using a 32-bit gcc. 64-bit gcc shows it :)

$ x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc meltdown.c -o meltdown.exe
$ ./meltdown.exe
1371183207
Wow awesome