skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps LPCnet may be of use to you. If is a neural net for generating speech based on google's research. The demonstrate using it to intelligently slow down or speed up audio. perhaps you will find 3x audio more natural with it. maybe a smart accelerator could be made that speeds up quiet parts more.

https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/lpcnet/
Sounds like how "turbo"/"boost" works on modern CPUs.
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Same here. I buy a lot of textbooks for fun reading myself on topics like economics, physics, and math where the books don't really change much or where the reading is better in book form.
"But it's technically legal!" is not a valid argument in a discussion about ethical concerns.
Just a casual reminder that a portion of Amazon workers are on a strike during the Prime Days.

Support them by not visiting any Amazon property for the next two days. No Amazon purchases, no Audible, no Goodreads, no Twitch. AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not. We can do without them for two days, and show our support for the workers that are protesting inhumane conditions.
I suspect that a lot of people who prefer audio books don’t get the “movie in your head” effect from reading fiction, and have a relatively slow reading speed. If you can read quickly, listening to audio on normal speed can be as frustrating as watching someone type using hunt and peck...
That's why I set it for 30 minutes for me. 95% of the time I am asleep by then. 10 minutes wouldn't work for me either.
Just to conclude, before industrial revolution civilisation could only provide hunger-less life to 0.1B people.

Now, civilisation provided hunger-free life to 7B people.

If this is not 'getting better', I don't know what is, even if same _number_ of people go hungry.

At least now the food to feed them actually exists, which was not the case before
0-60 isn't everything. There are a few better performing cars at that and lower price points.
It is seriously irrational to quit coffee since it is associated with a significant reduction in mortality. This has been valifated by multiple meta-analyses. Of course you don't want to drink so much that it harms your sleep.
The language in the comment above does not in any way fulfill the obligations of informed consent as defined by most institutional research boards for human subjects.
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Did y'all know macOS has a built-in text-to-speech system that is pretty decent?

Go to System Preferences > Accessibility > Speech and set a keyboard shortcut, then you can turn any piece of text into an audio book by simply selecting it and pressing the text-to-speech keyboard shortcut. You'll need to set the Speaking Rate pretty high for this to be useful.

It works great for news, blog posts, HN discussions, and amazingly powerful proofreading tool for writers.

More info with screenshots here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem...
Their website? Their brochures at their showrooms? Their embedded articles like this one?
That's why we need to bring down that giant gold asteroid! Gold fuel tanks for everyone!
Sense2vec isn't really what I'm waiting for.

It relies on word sense disambiguation, which tends to be one of those very language-specific things, and so I'd expect (but haven't verified) that, like other techniques that rely on language-specific bits, it wouldn't work as well on most non-English text. And the most interesting polysemy problems aren't to do with part of speech. They're things like "apple-as-in-food" vs "apple-as-in-computer", or figuring out that "The Big Apple" doesn't have anything to do with either of those. What would be really interesting is dealing well with jargon, slang, and terms of art.

As far as those notebooks, is there one in particular I should be looking at? I might have missed something, but the stuff I saw basically just demonstrated, "Hey, we can handle a lot of training data really fast." What I'd be more interested in seeing is, "Hey, plug us into your document classification pipeline and your performance (as in accuracy) metrics won't know what hit them."

edit: For a more concrete example of what I'd like to see, and going back to the analogy task: The holy grail I'm looking for isn't "king - man + woman = queen". It's more like "software engineer = programmer", and also "software engineer != software + engineer".
How is this relevant tech news? The tesla adverts can stop now.
I haven't seen any evidence that their production has scaled. They brute-forced production with that outdoor tent and lots of manual labor and cut corners to attain numbers, but that's not scaling, that's hacking the numbers. They're still trying to figure out how to get the production line working.
Besides selling, I'd include having a good business plan and management skills.

Focusing on programming languages is the mother of all local optimizations. Although what we do is obsessing, not merely focusing.
> AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not.

Even AWS is avoidable. The cloud hosting market is competitive if you'd only look around.
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Not really, but better to not frame the page as being "ruined". Something about Github's popularity in China making the case for language options or something, maybe.
The performance gap between C++ and GC languages like Ocaml and Common Lisp is much smaller than 10x. Here's one example where Common Lisp yielded literally the same performance as C++: https://m00natic.github.io/lisp/manual-jit.html#orgd043a43
I've never seen a SAML IdP that can't release that stuff as claims when configured properly. Are you having trouble getting people to do that when you use SAML?
Their website. Tweets. Livestreamed events. Etc.
What concerns me is that shortcuts in industrial manufacturing processes are often directly detrimental or even fatal to workers. Heavy industry uses toxic chemicals and large, powerful machinery; cutting corners around those things is actively dangerous.

Using some electrical tape in places where you'd otherwise use shrink tubing is not a big deal. But like you said, trying to cut corners on a finished hardware design sounds orders of magnitude harder than doing so on software, and I worry about what else workers are being forced to do to cover for management's failures.

[edit] added word "else" for clarity
So, album then.
Audiobooks of non-fiction work for me because I'm listening in otherwise dead time: when I'm driving there is nothing else to do. The average person [US?] spends 50 minutes a day alone in their car. That if you use that time to listen to a non-fiction book and learn something you are a better person. If you zone out and decide you don't care to rewind to where you zoned out it isn't a loss.

I don't think fiction would work this way, too much of the plot depends on what happened on the last page. However non-fiction if you miss point B but get A, D, and part of C you are still better even if you never go back to learn what B was or fully grok C.
This may be a specific case of a more general rule: use proven, boring tools that get the job done and focus your efforts on sales, marketing, people management and the business itself.
>What marketing materials? Tesla doesn't buy ads

I'm gonna let you in on a modern marketing secret: there's much more out there than buying ads.
I'm in a similar position, so I have blown the dust off my Nintendo DS and bought Brain training for 50p at a local shop. You can get the Math focused version "Math training" too.

The games track your progress well and adapt to your skill level. It is away from your connected devices so reduces your chance of getting distracted. Also it's a beautifully designed game.
The question is not what is more real in an absolute sense, the thing is that in a lunar eclipse the Moon is in the shadow (so it’s an objective, observer-independent fact about the Moon) while in a solar eclipse it’s the observer, not the Sun, that is in the shadow: the event is not “objective” in the same sense.
This sounds like a raw deal for students.

I kept all of the textbooks relating to my major for several years. They were good reference materials while completing the degree and were useful as supplementary resources. By the time the second year of undergraduate studies rolled around, the faculty started assigning textbooks that were intended to serve as introductory material to graduate studies. By the time the final year of undergraduate studies rolled around, at least half of the assigned books were intended to build professional libraries.

From an educational and professional perspective, this drive towards rented textbooks is doing a disservice to students. It is treating education as disposable while forcing students to pay even more to build a library that will serve them well in their career.
> but given human nature, population control is not exactly feasible.

Where did you get that from? Some countries have been quite successful implementing family planning policies. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_planning_in_Bangladesh
I think you'd have to have a dedicated machine with a camera for this; otherwise, you'd have to ask one of your coworkers to basically be constantly on-camera for you. That's not a limitation of the service, though.
> Unfortunately that ship has long since sailed. Every company is A/B testing everything on every user.

It's only sailed if you give up and give in. Policies can change.
I thing op meant that you as a internet traveler can't really avoid websites calling aws (unless you block them with something like pi-hole or no script).
In the save vein, I'm also going to recommend http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/

It's a work in progress, but very well made. I think Bob (who is writing the book) is a great educator.
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>It's sort of like looking into an alternate universe where the principles of web design turned out totally different from our own.

And they also mysteriously know a lot about interstellar class rockets. Personally, I suspect they might be members of Special Circumstances.
I was under the impression that Blender was fairly common in the modeling industry. Not a de-facto standard like Microsoft Office or Creative Suite, but one frequently used option among many.

Not true?
On the other hand you could sell them pretty useless data for $10. You only need to make one purchase to get the money.

In some ways this seems like an error on Amazons part. They are telling people this data is worth $10, when most people think its worthless. How long before enough people cotton on and these companies start having to pay rates that reflect the actual value of the data.
Did it sound like I was unaware of this?

The user interface is YAML. It is an awful user interface and it adds nothing except complexity to the effort of making systems work. Expect people to write well-factored code and to treat the entirety of their CM as code and they will do so.
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Agreed. I tend to listen to podcasts and still read books. I find the pacing in books to be built around reading them. With the popularity of audio books I wonder how long it will be until we have ‘books’ specifically done and only released for audio. I know some podcasts are close to this, but they are still not as tight as a well edited book.
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Unless you're on a track you won't be getting usage patterns that kick in thermal limiting.

If your planning on buying a car to track a 4 door, 5k lbs car isn't exactly the best choice.
So

King - tomato + potato = Queen

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Thats true but I still think it is ridiculous how loosely data is given
> If you use the appropiated hash functions (PBKDF2, bcrypt, scrypt, not "AES-256") you are not rolling "your own crypto".

Hash functions are useless in a password manager; you can't retrieve the password after hashing. That's why you use them for storing passwords on the server side, but a password manager needs to know the password so that it can send it to the server.
The borrowing scheme works for pointers that are passed in to functions, but not ones returned from functions As long as you don't go against the grain of the scope, you are fine. It is a natural and simple restriction that can be addressed by local data flow analysis.

The problem, as I see it, is going against the grain of the scope, a problem faced by iterators. For example, consider

for (p = f(s); p; p = p.next) {}

won't be allowed, since f may not be able to return a borrowed pointer (like s.ptr). Rust solves this using parametric lifetimes.

In general, I am saying that returning a non-owned pointer from a function is common, and required. Am I wrong in this assumption? If not, is there an alternate architecture to get around this problem? Note that marking the pointer as const is not an option.
Just to clarify: OIDC = OpenID Connect, which doesn't have much to do with the old OpenID but is based on OAuth 2.0.
I mean that's all well and good but I can't switch over my company's infrastructure to GCE for the next two days.
I'm not a big fan of names that when you say out loud others don't know which one you mean.
> Oh, nice. It's hopeless for C/C++ for legacy reasons, but D - that could work.

What in particular do you think would be impossible in C++ for legacy reasons?

From a very high level it seems to me that all the necessary ingredients of this solution are available in C++ (> C++11) as well. There are pointers, smart pointers, references, constness and move semantics for the ownership and borrowing. There are [[attributes]] for the method-selective opt-in.

There is of course always the argument of not making C++ compilers even more complex. But is there some actual technical limitation in fitting the same idea into C++?
I recall a famous incident where US teens were caned for grafitti, you are mistaken.
Sure but good luck not visiting anyone else's website who uses it (and then pays Amazon for serving that to you).

Prime-day wise I saw other sites suggesting that you shouldn't avoid shopping there - a warehouse strike can't make its point of orders piling up and not shipping on time if there aren't orders to pile up.
The evidence is against you. Rich people don't just wack money in the holy index fund of stable returns. Investing in properties is more complicated than buying, waiting, and flipping. With 2 million dollars cash you could probably buy 7 or 8 apartments (leverage is pretty useful), you would rent these out and hope they appreciate, or depreciate by less than the income from rent. It's a very reasonable investment, it just takes capital to begin with, the risk is lower than you think because as I mentioned, you can rent the property which hedges against depreciation. And even in the case of depreciation it can be favourable for tax purposes, you make money through renting and you reduce your taxable income through selling for a loss, it's still a net positive investment.

The index fund is the greatest thing to ever happen to casual investors, but with millions of dollars at your disposal you should no longer consider yourself part of that group. They're also not infallible, in the long run they're up but in the short run you can lose a lot of money in them, just like any investment.
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But Russia Today and Sputnik say it's true! You're not suggesting the Russians may have a hidden agenda are you?!
She certainly sounds interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_16
Data, especially personal data should not be a means in which anyone can make any sort of financial compensation from.

Why? That seems a pretty extreme position.
Hey, one of the authors here.

The motivation behind this project is that I always wanted a simple commandline tool allowing me to join data from different places, without needing to set up stuff like presto or spark. On another hand, I never encountered any tool which allows me to easily query csv and json data using SQL (which at least in my opinion is fairly ergonomic to use).

This started as an university project, but we're now continuing it as an open source one, as it's been a great success so far.

Anyways, feedback greatly requested and appreciated!
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For very basic math have a look at past-papers and marking schemes for the uk "Functional skills" maths.

https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel...
It's unavoidable in the short term. Way too many websites use AWS for a consumer to boycott them, and if you're using it within a company, you can't switch away easily on a short notice.

But I agree, if you work for a company that relies on AWS, now is the perfect time to re-examine that decision. They were the first ones to fulfill a niche, but there's a bunch of competition now.
You get to choose, and they are actually offering to pay you...
I thought this is what we wanted people...
This is about using native-image for the Graal compiler when used as a JIT in HotSpot. There are Windows builds for this available here[1]. Not sure what you mean by position independent code in the context of libgraal. But I don't think it is relevant.

[1] https://www.graalvm.org/downloads/
The interpretation I like, which is basically a restatement of the Baumol effect, is that the value of something like music isn't remotely in the work done but in how the listeners feel about it.

The market is effectively determining that modern musicians are more productive than the musicians of old because they are entertaining more economically productive people and the market is valuing the entertainment with reference to who the audience is. Similarly with the rich countries; the people supporting highly productive advanced economies get more, because markets value outcomes more than inputs.

It is hardly fair, but at that level fairness is cripplingly expensive.
If I may, what kind of exercises paired well with audiobooks? I need a routine, any kind of routine, but like you I find a lot of exercising dull.
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this worked great for autoworkers! h a h a ha
When the best value option was always cracking the air open, putting the SSD on a shelf in case you ever needed to return it, and throwing in a new one. A cheap QLC drive is likely sufficient for any workload you would do on a MBA.

Oh no... Apple is providing better value. Let's be mad at them for good reasons like having a poor keyboard on a device designed around typing.
They have to be done the right way. There’s a known talk radio show host who also writes books. I tried one of his audio books and it was not read by him, but by someone else. I couldn’t continue with it and got the print version.
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There's more than raw execution speed. There's footprint, which affects how soon you have to scale (hint: 100X sooner with GC/interpreted systems). There's latency which can be highly irregular in GC systems and can result in very confusing behavior/bugs.

Modern systems can remove lots of complexity and enable fast prototyping, which we are all aware of. But it comes with a cost, and that cost (e.g. having to deal with scaling much, much sooner) hits at a sensitive time in startup growth.
Listening to books is just too slow. For the right kind of book with a slower narrator, I might be able to listen at 2x or 2.5x and still understand it. But why not just devote my full attention, read it at 8x and probably have better recollection than from passive listening?

Other books require more work and I probably read at 1x speed with frequent pauses and re-readings. I'd never understand those if they were audio.

The one time I might go for an audio book is when outside exercising or commuting, but that's when I listen to music or podcasts.
I drive a lot and audiobooks are how I pass time. Usually I can stay focused. When I find myself losing focus and unable to get it back I switch to music. Still, I find it a lot easier to focus on audio than text on paper these days. I've listened to 50-100 audiobooks in the last few years where I have finished reading approximately three paper/kindle books. I like the audiobooks keep reading when I temporarily lose focus. Can always rewind a few minutes and try again if I get lost.

It helps to only listen to books I am interested in, can learn from. I don't listen to fiction in general because it's harder for me to follow when someone else is acting out the characters.
Gawkers greatest offense was publishing the truth, not that they lied about Peter Thiel, or gossiped too much about...?
Does it help them?

Theres only any point in withdrawing labour, if that labour was required. Surely it would be better to concentrate your purchases so that the labour loss will be keenly felt, then not buy the week before or after.
What are the parameters around this? Can you install the assistant make your purchase and then uninstall it, or does it have to stay installed for some specified period of time?
Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
Heads up, the union organizing behind the UK strike doesn't want a boycott.

> Still, the GMB isn’t calling on customers to boycott the online retailer during Prime Day. “We’re not calling for economic damage for Amazon,” Mick Rix, a union officer told the BBC. “What we’re asking for is for people to be aware. Leave feedback on Amazon.”

https://qz.com/1666429/amazon-prime-day-2019-sees-workers-st...
Anyone made the jump from MySQL to PostreSQL? It is worth it?
I am a forester and maybe I can chime in. From the point of view of CO2 assimilation the clear-cut or even better cut in small parts over the years forests are much better than those old-growth multicentury forests around the world. Actually old-growth forest will accumulate less CO2 than younger counterparts and may have ratio of realeased and accumulate CO2 being close to 1:1. Number of species at least in European or rather Polish forests are pretty large in both natural protected and normally used forests. Of course they are countries with worse forest conditions like for example Africa or Scandinavia, but still greener planet = better planet. It doesn't matter that much, why it is greener.

The general approach changes at least here. The largest difference is relatively smaller density of dead wood in the forests, which is important and still not fully understood habitat.
This kind of study is exactly what advertising companies do all the time.

I prefer to see the study than not.
Essentially it means that City Skylines could compute anything that it is possible to compute, given enough time. Therefore it is functionally equivalent to the computer you're typing on. In reality, like all computers, it has memory constraints which limit what it can do. A true Turing machine needs infinite memory, which is impossible.
I recall family size is most correlated with economy type, I.e. in agrarian economies children are looked upon as an asset (helping in the farm, taking care of their parents) vs an industrial/urban economy where children are “liabilities” the shift between the two is typically the largest driver of a reduction in birth rate (along with increase in education, and access to family planning)
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They may not be great at differentiating the top from the very top but they are great at establishing a minimum qualification.