skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to digitize a large and dirty vinyl collection
Maybe it's semantics?

Google cloud services voice generation uses models/algorithms developed by DeepMind, it's not directly a DeepMind product.
They do enable expanding the definition of what is ordinary D code. With UDAs, you can write declarative data structures that are more UDA semantics than D semantics. Macros do the same thing, if with more range.
It was a great effect at the time, and holds up well now too. Not that it was technically sophisticated, but it added quite a bit of mysticism to an already mystery filled movie.

The moment I saw it, I knew it was Korean / Japanese / Chinese, while some characters looked overlapped.

Was obsessed with the graphic for quite a while. Screensavers, Wallpapers, etc.
Back then it was just a protocol among many.

On 16 bit platforms, we needed to buy it as additional software package.
Have anyone of you built a Enterprise web company alone? Or is it just a fantasy?
I really dislike the comparisons between boot camps and college, as if they are substitutes for another. They’re not, and 100% depends on your goal.

If your goal is the fastest track to employment in any programming job, then web development/CRUD is probably the easiest route to get there, and a bootcamp is the most economical. However, you’re limited to only frontend web development or Rails or various js jobs. On the other hand hand, so many bootcamp grads have had astounding success transitioning from minimum wage jobs to 100k salaries in 4 months’ time.

A CS degree, on the other hand, is a long-term investment. Done properly, it sets you up for success for a wide variety of roles, and gives you hard earned understanding of the big picture that comes with years of studying. The blog post specifically advises you to hire CS grads (or grads with academic CS backgrounds) for anything remotely more specialized than javascript, like databases, etc. but, it involves 3-4 years of full time studying.

These are not substitutes each other: they are dependent on your goals! Each involves trade offs. Because I’m biased towards academic CS education, I’ll say this: tech is one the fastest changing industries, and I think it is crucial to be grounded in the fundamentals, not just for your future employability, but your overall understanding of CS and where your work fits in.
The problem with this vision is that economies of scale exist. I have been involved in a manufacturing business for a while. Scale solves lots of problems. It spreads overhead over more units. It incentivizes spending resources to hyper optimize material and labor usage. Etc.
The relevant entity for German is [1]. Apparently created after or during the struggle for an official reform of the language in the 90 and early 2000.

[1] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_für_deutsche_Rechtschrei...
@bihla take this man up on his offer :-). I thought it was an April fools joke where it talks about perl and then implements everything in python. But no, its actually python. If you (peteretep) do port it to perl, please post a show HN: :-)
> Inflation has been at <2% for a while, so how is a 5% raise cost of living? It's actually big.

That's because inflation is not the same as purchasing power.
This is pedantic. 10% is proportionally a very small number. I'm far more invested in the interests and priorities of 90% of people than of 10% of people.
My understanding of distributism has been that it has among its aims to localize governmental power. I don't mind strengthening a government where my vote actually makes a difference.

Especially in the incarnations of distributism that have a large overlap with Georgism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism) you see this sort of thing manifest in e.g. the land tax (strengthens local governments who are the assessors of said tax -- and if land tax is your society's primary tax, then power naturally devolves from the center to the local).
How many did Habitat for Humanity make? I would expect they have among the highest houses per donated dollars. Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President, founded habitat for humanity.
People are downvoting this, but it's true:

http://oceancrusaders.org/plastic-crusades/plastic-statistic...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...

On a local level, it's still good to encourage better environmental practices and reduce plastic waste. On a global level, I suppose this is a "feel good" law in the sense that the heaviest polluters are mostly Asian countries, and a lot of work needs to be done there.
What else do you suggest?
AFAIK, there are no neutered professions in German. So that would be a big change, it's hard to imagine.

I know very little French, but if I understand correctly, because person in French is female (la personne), you could have a sentence mentioning "the persons" (plural) (les personnes?), and then later on using the pronoun "elles" (female version of "they") to refer to them. So a female-coded pronoun would refer to a mixed-gender group of people.
1.06^11 = 1.89, so yes. That’s about doubling in 11 years.
Jisho does not have the last stroke wrong, that is how you write the kanji. The way it is represented in computer fonts is different than how it is hand written. The jisho instructions show how to hand write it.
Ruby has always been a nightmare on Windows. Every time a new junior freelance developer is onboarded in a Rails project everybody hopes he's got a Mac or Linux laptop. A significant number of them uses Windows and we always suggest them to run a Linux VM. Some of them resist the suggestion. We make clear we're not wasting time to support their environment (we're deploying on Linux anyway) and that they are on their own. After not to much time they comply or leave. After months some of them could even buy a Mac or dual boot on Linux (Windows is good at videogames.)

Still, AFAIK VirtualBox has a problem with supporting multiple cores. Single core VM is heavily handicapped even for Ruby. Parallel testing was not in Rails but it's definitely a thing.
A few hundred? There's plenty of folks who already think animal testing is barbarism.

Unfortunately, like the "doctors" of the bad old days, for medical purposes we don't really have a choice, do we?

We do, however, have a choice when it comes to cosmetics and non-critical research, and I stand by my conviction to use cosmetics not tested on animals exclusively.
This is not how trust works
Maybe universities are not merit based institutions and gateways for advancement of the underprivileged, but finishing schools funded by the elite to help elite children gain the training and social skills needed to become semi-functional elite adults?

Of course, these institutions do need some serious scholars to serve as professors, just like a good gym needs some serious athletes to serve as trainers -- but selecting and training athletes is not the point of a gym and maybe scholarship is not the point of a university?
Distributism, being a Catholic belief, is ultimately based on the principal of subsidiarity, which is a Catholic social doctrine stating that all matters of government ought to be handled at the most local level competent and able enough to deal with the matter. Thus, while national defense may best lay with the national government, the trash pickup schedule is best decided by local processes.
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I doubt it, but only because from a utilitarian standpoint, using animals for research purposes is not even a drop in the bucket. Humanity slaughters billions of animals each year just because they're tasty. At least the research animals have some benefit beyond a single person's satiation.

I do wonder how long it will be before people start vandalizing statues of historical figures because they ate meat.
But repeated allegations of these practices remain, e.g.

https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business...

There is more evidence in the filings for Curry v. Yelp.
Ted Turner trying to make the cartoons more family-oriented is what ruined HB.

In the 90s, they just had put out SWAT Kats. That could've been hugely marketable, but Ted thought it too violent, along with many other HB properties in development at the time. He changed that, and HB began a painful decline.
It is not, you can check the post for the full context.
> The fact that you don't use the knowledge gained in a particular course does not make that course worthless.

Thank you! It irritates me so much to see people refusing to learn just because it isn’t a sought-out skill listed in job descriptions.
Much more achievable would be to aim for revenues of $10M-20M, and a $100M exit value (5-10X multiple).
I posted mine and looked back at the thread and someone else had posted at roughly the same time. Coincidence I guess. M O is a good term to describe the situation
A great article about information leakage (Fun) [pdf]
A friend of mind works for a software company that was utilizing Medq AI's brain bleed/hemorrhage detection Algorithm to identify urgent cases to be reviewed by a radiologist.

They were pitching it to a medical group, and they were like that's great for patient care but how does it cut costs to the organization...
Yeet.
I'm not competent to answer that, but the "merged glyph" versions of the other four modern era names date from older encodings like EUC and shift-JIS, and are presumably in unicode for compatibility. So the rationale for adding a new one may just be extending that set.
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You get used to it. I don’t even see the code. All I see is hamachi, unagi, toro…
It's because they had a successful slave revolt some hundreds of years ago. It's an interesting story, too long to tell.

Extremely worth researching.
But why do you think attitudes to slaughtering would not change over time?
What language(s) do you prefer using? How about databases? I’d be interested in starting a dialogue with you. My email is jwheeler726 at googles email service.
Also to see: plenty of reasons why 'Saturday Morning Cartoons' was killed.

Hanna-Barbera were my favorite animators, hands down. I could watch their toons any day and I would not get bored.
No, I don't do that, I use the handle on the milk cartons.
Yeah I should've said "I don't recommend learning how to write the characters by hand in the first 2-3 years, or ever".

As gibolt said, it's much easier to just learn to recognize characters, without being able to write them by hand.

If you learn Japanese for, say, 2 years, even without consciously trying to learn the characters (e.g. by using rikai-chan/kun) when reading articles, you'll encounter the same words over and over so you'll be able to recognize them, even if you can't write them by hand. And that's good enough.

Most native Japanese speakers cannot write words like 咀嚼 or 憂鬱 by hand, but many more can pronounce them just fine.
It's about trust more than anything.
Yes... Communism means the communal ownership of goods. In practice, some process needs to be in place to decide how the goods are used. Usually, this is some kind of democratic institution -- a government or small committee that nominally looks after the interests of the people. Historically, the issue with communism is the inability for this small group to truly benefit all the workers.

Corporate capitalism is the same system under another name. Instead of governments controlling the capital in the name of the workers, employers own the capital in the name of the workers. Workers themselves in both systems do not often own their own means of production (although capitalism at least allows for this).

For example, a distributist model of furniture manufacture involves thousands of local woodworkers each making furniture, selling them, profiting in a small way -- at least enough to raise their family. A corporate capitalist model is one large company which owns all the tools and wood that the individual employee-workers utilize to make a good that is sold to profit the corporation. A communist model is the 'people' own the tools and the wood that some citizens make into furniture for the benefit of all the community. Because the worker gets everything they need anyway, their income isn't actually a function of their labor.

In both the case of corporate capitalism and communism, the worker does not own the means of production and the profit and value they create via the utilization of the tools and raw materials owned by some other more remote group is mostly alienated from their behavior. Only in the distributist model are people actually paid exactly for what value their labor provided.

In other words, monopolistic publicly owned corporations are basically communism, but with the board of directors (on behalf of the 'people' -- the shareholders, basically the public for large corporations) substituting for the communist government. All economic decisions are made centrally, and any competition between these large firms in an oligopoly is more akin to the competition between communist governments than the competition envisioned by capitalists
More times than I can count.
> There really should be a name for the phenomenon

I’d say it’s a sort of affordance[0], but I’m sure Don Norman[1] suggested material properties can be described as the “psychology of materials” in his book[2]. He describes how British Rail kept building tougher and tougher glass that was still always being broken, but when it was replaced with plywood the vandalism stopped, even though the wood would be easy to break. Certain materials (and designs) beg to be used (and abused) in certain ways.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Norman

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Thing...
Here is 习近平 himself saying so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iBJK-doMM4

"We do not promise to renounce the use of force and
reserve the option to use all necessary measures."
>During the cold war, he also used to characterize 'capital democratization' as a third way, separate from capitalism and communism

Decentralized workplace democracy was the model in Yugoslavia under communism and in much of China during the Mao era. It was also briefly attempted in the early Soviet Union.
Cancer gets cured all the time. Note that curative treatments are aimed at reducing the number of cancer cells to zero or near zero eg with surgery or chemotherapy.

These evolutionary strategies are a cute idea that might buy some more time in relatively indolent cancers with therapies that already work well. It’s a niche indication at best.
I think they will, but only once compelling meat substitutes become affordable. Even then, I think most of future society's condemnation will be for eating meat, not for animal experimentation. By comparison: When people talk about the holocaust, they are mostly referencing the mass slaughter, not the relatively small number of victims of human experimentation.

(Wow, this got off topic quickly.)
That's not a PHP thing, it's a CGI thing. You can use any scripting language to do it. Perl was popular but you could use Python or even bash.
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I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere except here. I wonder if the silent passing the film's 20th anniversary is due to the soon-to-come 20th anniversary of the Columbine massacre.
What if humans were so different from other creatures that testing human medicines on other species made no sense and the established practice was testing on human “volunteers”, i.e. poor people. Would it still make sense to argue that we didn’t have a choice?
How about not testing it, because it's got truly no consequence?
Maybe your company should provide the optimal hardware which everyone must use? Each employee using a similar environment is a productivity boost. And I can tell you, that if everyone would use the same system, even windows, you would have less problems.

Sounds alot simpler than letting everyone use their own environment..
In contrast, I've received every one of their past notifications. Earlier bank notifications all show DMARC/DKIM/SPF "PASS" ratings. Who knows.
I don't have experience with Dragon or Siri, but Google Assistant has been improving at a noticable pace and for me seems seems to recognize at least 90% correct.
Ask HN: Anyone using a 40“/43” display for mixed dev/TV?
I've been using a 28" 4k display and a 32" tv and 50" tv (in a different room). I'm considering just getting a 43" display for use as both.

There's a particular model that is intriging, the 43UD79-B[0]. It's an IPS display that's billed as a monitor rather than a TV. It seems to have most of what I'm looking for, with a bonus of multi-input split screen and a USB kvm.

Only downsides might be too large (no one seems to make 37"/40" monitors) and grayish blacks with lights turned off.

What experiences have you had combining functions with a large-ish TV/monitor?

[0] https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/lg/43ud79-b
> Probably they should have identified groups actually doing work, and let them skim off 0%. I.e., let them submit bills to reimburse expenses for shipping, materials and local labor

I worked for a UN aid organisation a few years ago that worked like this. They have teams in the country that work with local suppliers to procure whatever goods or services they need to complete projects. The local supplier submits estimates that will be paid upon completion (the local supplier usually receives a bank loan for the funding, rather than being paid in advance).

Even so there is still a large amount of overhead. As with any government-esque organisation there is plenty of red tape and beuracracy at every level. The employees at this organisation are paid a very good salary, tax free, and get a whole host of other benefits and great pension. A lot of people don't seem that great at their job, but once they are in, they stay for life as it's rather cushy. The teams in charge of projects will fly a few times a year to the country, first class. Worst of all I heard rumors of projects being carried out that weren't needed, but were just done for whoever was in charge to get their promotion.
For me I dunno if it's more agency or just more difficult to stay entertained. I used to play world of Warcraft for ten hours marathons on summer break. Same for counter strike, half life deathmatch... Hell even single player games like ocarina of Time would take me months to get through because chopping down all the signs in the beginner area, leaving, coming back, and doing it all over again would be enough "game" for me.

Now I barely touch games... Can do about an hour and a half of tv or movie max (barring good 2h+ films). Multiplayer games I can do maybe an hour or two a couple days a week, more if we're in the same room.

I mean I watched Alladin every day for a good few months once. I'm typing this out because I got distracted from Netflix just now. Something's different about me, I wonder if it's true for others?
I was part of a decently sized reverse engineering group there. A lot of valuable knowledge and interesting discussion is stored on G+ for some bizarre reason. It was never a great idea, but it's there and I suspect that there are plenty of similar groups that used G+ that simply aren't hellholes. Your anecdotal experience doesn't mean anything when there are clearly people who believe there's something there worth saving.
iOS has a feature “save to reading list” that I use to save stories that seem interesting but that I don’t need to read for my current task. However, I haven’t taken to time to learn to access my reading list :)
Well, I use an Ubuntu host on a Dell XPS (since it just works without extra configuration).

But I also use an Ubuntu guest VM for development so that I can shove the guest onto a different machine easily (yeah, I know I should use continuous integration, but I haven't yet).

Using a VM definitely has a big performance cost... Even though I value the benefits I accept the costs.
This the original post in this thread:

> It is kinda amazing that Elon Musk is selling cars based on speculative future breakthroughs in technology. That must be a first.

But promising things based on speculation about the future is not new, it's common practice. It may be a questionable idea, but the claim was that it's unusual. It's not.
"I have no idea how you people have such nice jobs..."

Crack one of the top 5 companies and you'll be set for life.

Most of them have offices around the world, although engineering tends to be focused in certain US and European cities. They might ask you to move there.

If you have the initiative and skill to identify a $1.5M cost-saving opportunity and execute it, you are probably good enough to work at Facebook (or wherever). Just practice interviewing for a couple weeks. Every class of question you could be asked is represented on Leetcode/Hackerrank/etc.
Buy shares in GOOGL.
Wi-Fi only.

In emergencies, people are always happy or at least willing to let me borrow their phone to make a call.
Potentially developing more targeted pain killers for people with chronic conditions or recovering from bad injuries, without relying on known addictive substances is of no consequence?
It's both - dates through April 30 are Heisei 31, and dates from May 1 are Reiwa 1, is the official take.
Can I share some observations? There are a few things I really love about this:

- You kept the end user in mind: You. The GUI looks like a mashup, in a good way: A Mac OS menu bar, Windows GUI feel and a NextSTEP launcher on top of a Unix like system. It shows that for every element, instead of simply recreating whatever system you decided to emulate, you took the parts you liked best from whatever system and simply recreated that. I haven't looked at the code too thoroughly, but I can probably find the same mindset there.

- You kept the scope tight. It's easy to lose sight of the bare minimum MVP, especially when working on a hobby project. The functionality showcased here tells me that whenever you started implementation of a feature, you built exactly what you needed, nothing less, nothing more.

- You also didn't get bogged down with premature optimizations. Yes, the PNG renderer is slow. But it does the bare minimum it's supposed to.

But most of all, this takes a crazy amount of time, skills and dedication. You've probably encountered quite some frustrating moments you had to chew through, but now you're here, presenting your work. And it's awesome!
From May 1st onwards, yes.

Heisei 31 April 29, Heisei 31 April 30, Reiwa 1 May 1, Reiwa 1 May 2, etc.
Like when my phone would only turn on after I put it in the freezer. Eventually that stopped working too. I miss that phone. I loved that phone. I still have it. Can't seem to let it go.
>No tech that requires a special type of road will ever get successful

I'm reading this from inside a train.
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> there are just too many hidden parts which are sometimes faulty

i guess you must live in a different universe than me if this doesn’t apply to “normal” and “viable” computer systems and cs education.

the entirety of your post seems like you are just making stuff up out of thin air simply because it is different than what you know. have you used dynamicland? have you seen presentations on it? have you watched how it works?

if something doesn’t work in dynamicland, you can just go and look at what isn’t working. it’s all there. a major component of bret victor’s work is seeing. watch his talk seeing spaces for some elaboration.