skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a difference if you do it for your personal notes, or if you then distribute them at scale and make money from it.

I think that's my main argument - this text-to-speech is the same as doing it for personal notes, and that if this is made illegal, then a huge number of other traditionally allowed activities become illegal.

That it happens on someone else's server is irrelevant: 1) It's the same as hiring someone to take notes on a book you own. 2) There's precedent where someone making a recording on your behalf is legally the same as you doing it yourself. 3) If all else fails, the transcription can be done locally.
Ah, yes, a fourth read makes that clear. I read "iMessage and iCloud integration is still missing" as "I haven't been able to get iMessage to integrate with iCloud" instead of as "there is nothing comparable on Linux", which, given context, makes much more sense.

Thanks for the clarification.
Well, the cavalry comes in and soon outweighs the misguided negativity...at least in this thread. The negative comments were definitely outstanding.
They were making this voting system since the last year.
I love how he's constantly dubious about autonomous robots news on twitter. Yesterday he criticized the Berkeley delivery https://twitter.com/rodneyabrooks/status/1165736688141787136... for not being autonomous and their short distances. He's also very skeptical about self-driving cars in general.
I'm clearly biased (co-founder), but I'd suggest having a look at Nudge.ai for exactly that.
While technically a function is a class instance, it doesn't act like one in pretty much any common use-case.
> Few other benefits of induction are easier cleanup (you can wipe it down)

With the downside that the surface is more fragile and susceptible to permanent damage, particularly if you have heavy cookware.

> no long term "soot" accumulation around the stove

I have lived extensively with propane, natural gas, and electric ranges/cooktops. I have never seen a "soot" accumulation, or really any difference in discoloration between any of those fuels.
I had really fun implementing coroutines, (almost-zero cost) exceptions, iterators etc with setjmp and longjmp. I think they're too useful to be banned outright (especially since C has no view on stack) since there are cases where you need to either use them or inline assembly, but I agree that they're the evilest of evilest std C functions.
I'm clearly biased (co-founder), but I'd suggest having a look at Nudge.ai. Does exactly what you're asking about.
Batteries are damaged by heat, not cold. It's just that the damage is revealed in cold weather.
More importantly they are insulated on the beginning of the prongs so if only partially inserted there is not a section of live wiring that can be arced.
Racket is a great language that needs more recognition. Thanks for posting your experiences.
Well this is certainly hacker news!
... because it just fell into a black hole

That doesn't really explain anything.
I think consumer grade induction stoves commonly found in Asia work well in a single phase.
Supporting this model, the Pacific Northwest traditionally uses electricity for everything because it is extremely inexpensive. This part of North America has seemingly limitless hydroelectric power, and consequently having some of the lowest electricity rates in the world.

At $0.08/kWh, Washington not only has the cheapest electricity in the US, it is also much cheaper than any part of Europe. It makes sense that local building would take advantage of that.
Hey!

Thanks for your feedback! I just want to mention that Wobaka is $49 for all of your team, not per user. So if you're more than 3 users it's not more expensive :).
What it’s like starting up the first Saudi-American accelerator
EU officials float €100B boost for European companies
I think transcription (even if not perfect) helps a lot when English is not your first language and you are still training your ear. Remember not everybody processes audio the same way, think ASD or ADD people.
I have a soft spot for python modules that fit in a single file like this, like bottle.py as well. Gives you so much freedom to just drop a file in a folder and call it a day, instead of having to worry about what can sometimes be complex dependency management.
Thank you, I have looked at Monica in the past but it was rather rough then. I see now that CardDav support is now in the "alpha" phase for the project. I will take a renewed look.

Thank you!
I agree, but that’s not the position of comment I’m replying to.
> if you can't get natural gas, you heat with oil not electric.

Is this the case for new construction too? Why aren't heat pumps used these days?
As an aside, every time one of Dyson's ideas comes up on HN, I have to google, and so far have always had the same reaction: Holy crap, Freeman Dyson is still alive.
SpaceX’s Starhopper cleared by FAA for second and final flight test
It might still be the lesser evil, especially long term. Or not. We would know only further down the road after its too late.
Your average user? Almost never.
I wouldn't say it's common. Most JavaScript developers (who aren't familiar with JS coercion rules or the difference between == and ===) wouldn't even be able to tell you for certain what the code does, exactly.

Using === to compare against "true" makes only sense if the variable can be something other than boolean (undefined, null, string etc). Or if you are programming defensively – by choice or because the codebase is messy.
One watch out is that the lazy loading only grabs the first 2048 bytes. That gives you the dimensions of an image, which is a plus, but not the whole image, unless the image is tiny. That likely means more total connections. Probably fine for http/2 sites, maybe not so for non-http/2 sites. Would be interesting to see perf stats for that case.
In Portugal a three phase connection is rare due to costs.

The electrical bill is structure so that you pay for the peak power consumption (kVA's) and how it's structured to favor 1 phase connections.

1 phase kVA options: 1,15; 2,30; 3,45; 4,60; 5,75; 6,90; ....
3 phase kVA options: 6,90; 10,35; ....

The kVAs levels increase by 5 Amps on each phase so you get much more levels on 1 phase connections.
Yes, same in Poland, 3 phases is standard (and houses from 70-ties also have 3 phases, not sure if they needed to pay extra for that or not).

And we don't do electric heating.
The story behind CVE-2019-13013
I really enjoyed the post, could we not discuss if it’s factual before we down vote it to hell...
> as explained by President Obama’s former chief economist Lawrence Summers, “government assistance programs” provide people with “an incentive, and the means, not to work.”

In the interest of pre-empting one obvious way to interpret that quote, this has a lot to do with the way that social welfare programs tend to be structured, and not necessarily a lot to do with laziness.

To take one concrete anecdote, many years ago a bartender at a neighborhood bar I used to frequent had to quit because she got a promotion at her day job. She didn't want to. She was actually kind of pissed off about it. The problem was, the pay raise pushed her combined income just above the cutoff point for eligibility for the state's Medicaid program, but still got her nowhere near what it would have taken to get health care on the private market. So, in order to advance her career while also retaining access to health care, she had to quit her side gig.
I have both the the full and the shorter (the New Shorter in my case) and I've found that I prefer the shorter over both the full Oxford (which I have online) and things like the publicly available MW. It's not a simple abbreviated edition of the full thing.

The full Oxford is a marvellous thing, but in the past decades, the New Shorter has grown to be what I reach for first.
I'm a bit disappointed that there's no DMR here, but seems to be a pretty interesting document otherwise.
Weird, this post pops onto the top of HN, and then disappears completely from the front page.
Yes! Would definitely recommend the investment if you spend a lot of time typing on the computer ;)
Possibly on a dollar consumption basis, but you know what they don’t have in Europe ? This https://www.google.com/amp/s/wreg.com/2019/04/07/4-adults-2-...
Even considering healthcare?
Perhaps this is why we perceive time to be going in one direction. The fact that a black hole exists in our universe means that there is only that direction.
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Excerpt from email I got today.

> You are receiving this email because this is an important message regarding your account and products you are using. You are not allowed to unsubscribe from this type of message.

-- Atlassian
webmin has been around for centuries and was dropped from Debian in 2005.

It has a long history of vulnerabilities (https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-358/...).
The incentives of realtors are not aligned with those of the buyer, which manifests in the cognitive dissonance you've just experienced.

On a different note — if possible, I'd love to chat about your experience with the UI. Do you have an email I can reach out to?
If you wonder why the Republicans won't be George H. W. Bush's party anytime soon, this guy is why.
Setting up the environment is usually the major thing.
PyDev of the Week: Frank Wiles
A philosophical book of essays about software from 1975 is not relevant for a set of recommendations on architecture 44 years later.

You are correct that chapter two lacks supporting evidence. And that's a problem for the book, it doesn't mean it's ok to omit data everywhere now.
I've always been a "let it burn" person. Medicine is never fun but it is necessary.
What would you be looking for in a less bloated CRM? I have considered writing one as a starter for clients but not sure what features to include.
Doesn't EVE Online do it and have it work out pretty well?
I would imagine one of Amazon's defenses is going to be that, actually, they are required to do this by the ADA?

I imagine various blind organizations will be filing friend of the court briefs.
The amount of delta-V required to orbit opposite of Earth's rotation is immense and very few projects have wasted the resources on it. I think most collision concerns come from inclinations and changing orbital altitude due to atmospheric drag. These are predictable effects, but it gets dicey quickly if your surface area increases because your vessel explodes.
There's got to be some origin for those particular names - were they just lab partners or something? I need to know!
YouTube blocks recording of public domain Schubert/Liszt composition
You can't think of any women? Of allllll the women in the world you can't think of a single one?
I see there is a cache here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:o_qhkVL...
Is there any specific part that you setup most often across your projects?
He probably pulled out classic "its for security reason" PR stunt. :D

Anyway, the guy is legend since its XPrivacy hit android...
If you bought a book, does that mean you should be able to read it out loud to your children for FREE?!?!?
Dangerous things saying you are.

A stay at home mom does not contribute to cheap workforce, does not pay for daycare and takeouts thus tanking the economy.

An ideal woman should work hard (preferably in STEM) until she's forty and then spend all the money she earned on fertility services.
Slippery slope being a thing, a ruling here has the potential to affect YouTube as well, since they run automated captions on videos. I’d be surprised if Google didn’t step in an offer up an opinion in support of Amazon.
Article refers one to this page: https://www.cyberswachhtakendra.gov.in/security-best-practic...
Writing lots of well-tested prototypes and benchmarks to grok the capabilities your building blocks have. Working with things you don't understand is very slow, so I feel doing all of this up front leads to much better results than doing it incrementally every time a new strange bug appears.
GHC 8.8.x Migration Guide
Audio books are performance and story. It’s not just the words. It is a substantially different work of art, even if it is the same story. I think that is where the GP is too reductionist.
Mostly machine learning. Did the coursera course. Some cognitiveclass.ai related to data analysis and python. Did a couple small projects with ML.Net. My learning has been pretty scattered, and not as focused as it probably could have been, but I think I've gotten a lot out of it. I've also been reading some programmer/development books. This is the first year I've actively pursued learning outside of a structured environment, and it's been a great year for this type of personal growth.
The critical difference is that your reading it to your children is not distributed or for sale, therefore is in private fair use.
HN idea: list highly voted articles flagged to death
Very interesting article, but very controversial:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20799705

I'd like to read more of these, and seems a good metric is lots of votes and flagged to death. Has anyone tried generating a list of such articles? Alternatively, is there a dataset that has the relevant information to generate such a list, or would I have to roll my own?
Social Security numbers aren't intended to be a national ID. Social Security cards have no address or photo. They just have your name and social security number. They are flimsy cardboard, not plastic, and I think they state right on it that laminating it invalidates the card.

They aren't designed to be used like ID. They are designed to actively undermine attempts to use them as ID.

The US is a long way off from a national ID.
of any women I know

I think the GP has clearly stated her sample.
Too much research for me.
Unfortunately, it's often algorithmically less efficient and more error prone, so everybody ends up replicating what git is doing with 'strbuf' but in slightly incompatible ways. The effect makes dealing with strings in C unnecessarily unpleasant.
By "if..." I assume you mean by going out of business? In that case the service would be released as open source and you would continue as normal.

What I would like feedback on is how people would like to use a service like this? Self hosted with a license? SaaS? some other way I'm not thinking of?
Race, gender, religion, disability... I'm probably forgetting a few other protected classes that you can't discriminate against.

That said, you only cannot discriminate on the basis of one of those listed above. There are unfortunately many people who will try to discriminate using a rule which indirectly singles out a group (I am intentionally omitting examples, use your imagination).

There are, perhaps more unfortunately, valid reasons to serve one cohort and not another that can have bias along these lines. Once again, the actions of some hateful few can ruin things for the rest of us.
The Perfect French Baguette
I hope we get the GPS III constellation up and running before any catastrophic LEO cascades. Having a self sustaining common clock system that can run for centuries has a very high scientific value (and really, just a huge value for any industrial, commercial, and consumer applications).
Learning Piano,
3d design & printing.
Improving my inline skating.

And a bunch of computer stuff too, but hell, for the past 33 years of working in this game, I've learned a bunch of new computer stuff each year. Sooner or later it all tastes like chicken.
Has anyone tried adding branch prediction to disk operations? While it would confuse a network, or other peripheral a preemptive random read from a disk ought to have minor impact.
And a below-average number of heads.
Using this I just learned that Beidou's orbit is geosynchronous with a high inclination. That's a lot of delta-V!
On the other hand Arabic names do get transcribed and as a consequence you can find like 15 different spellings of Al-Qaida. At least you can write it whichever way you want
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> Personally, I cant feel the difference in storage performance between my NVMe system and older SATA SSD ones, despite NVMe being much faster.

For the tasks I do, this is night and day, and lack of NVMe is reason enough to warrant buying new hardware.
Thank you for the comment. It's not my intention to claim any ownership of content, I'll review the text and modify it accordingly.
Did parasite manipulation influence human neurological evolution?
Yes, in Mandarin, the number 5 is wǔ (五), and the number 10 is shí (十). The number 50 is written as 五十 (I tend to read it as 5*10, or “five-tens” as you put it). I think it makes some simple math concepts easier to understand.
I think that the best incarnation yet of RUR's ideas on the silver screen is Blade Runner.
I wish they published more articles like this.

Like how, exactly? About suicide? About foreign culture? From a monk?
You would need a special license if you read it to your children and then sell that recording.
Not trying to be snarky, but it seems like for an oven to be less efficient, it would need to be releasing energy as something other than heat.
I use firebase for authentication and have been quite happy with it, but if this provides better integration with mailing lists out of the box, that would be compelling to me. Although I use firebase for authenticated users, I also have a mailing list sign up form with just an email field. I ended up creating my own confirmation email flow because I needed it to work for both people who created an account and people who just used the email form. It would've been nice not to have to do that.
Not to mention retirement funds, and pension plans.
I was referring to system and integration tests. If a system has any kind of user interaction, user testing is essential.
It's amazing what naming conventions are used over time. In the 70's/early 80's "~" was (at least in programming circles in the UK) called a swan-hyphen, today it is often called a tilde. Though I'm sure it has many other names that have come and gone throughout the fashion of time.
What Country are you interning in?

A few things, well thought out internships will be quite structured and you won't be left to your own without knowing what to do and how to get assistance if you need it. But there are also internships that honestly are fairly sloppy and you need to really seek out your own path and push to learn. To be fair, I'd give it a week to see what shakes out but I would be asking basic questions, just so you stay in the front of peoples minds. In the U.S. I have seen a few startups structure internships to see which of the intern(s) will actively seek out work etc. I frankly think this is a huge mistake, but I don't think they are doing it to be mean, just they themselves are inexperienced and think this is a valid way to see who will make themselves valuable to the company.

My advice, make yourself valuable to the company and make the most of your time there, even if in the end it winds up not being a good company you will learn a lot and people will see value in you which may lead to good recommendations later to other companies/programs. If you just sit back and take it easy then you'll learn very little and people won't respect you in the end (generally).
Let's note that this fall apart in Metropolitan French, where we don't say neither « septante » for 70, nor « nonante » for 90 (and even less « huitante » for 80), but « soixante-dix » for 70, « quatre-vingt » for 80 and « quatre-vingt-dix » for 90.

It's quite a shame, because that solution for reading hexadecimal numbers out loud is quite elegant :)
Even the Winchester Mystery House has architecture. Pretty good architecture. It's still standing, in spite of earthquakes. She bought it in 1884.

Now it has some fairly odd "features" based on her very eccentric "requirements." Doors that open into walls. Stairs that "go nowhere." Very expensive windows that look out at brick walls.

But given her odd sense of "requirements," it's the house she wanted!
It would be helpful to be more upfront in the video about why Facebook is tracking this, because it looks like it's Facebook Analytics for Apps - (https://analytics.facebook.com/get-started/Apps#fq), which puts this on par with Google Analytics for Apps - (https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/mobile) in terms of problematic behaviour.

So it is unclear if this is data that is provided to Facebook servers but not accessible to Facebook, similar to options for Google's Analytics platforms, or if it is harvested by Facebook by permission of the app creator. Both options being shady, as it's not told to the user, but this video feels more like it's saying Facebook is actively tracking people, not App Designers are giving Facebook permission to track you in exchange for marketing analytics.

The data that is being provided is significantly too high, and the user should be made aware, but this video seems to only discuss it being API calls to the Analytics interface when using the app.
I'd definitely expect there to be API calls when using an app, but how User ID tracking is done is probably the most potentially dangerous part here.
Never noticed a problem with mine.
Kudos for the launch! Is there a way to demo the product? Or see it in live w/o having to pull out the CC?
Brand Alchemy
Amazon Is Listing the 4th Edition of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
The response to that is more education and more curiosity. Pronouncing <cz> as /tʃ/ is no more obvious than the reading of <č> except in the word Czech because of how common it is. But the advantage of using the original graphy is (1) it's more respectful to the original, (2) it can motivate people to search about it and learn stuffs because it is unusual.

As an aside, I would love that more scientific papers use original names in their original scripts in the references section in addition to transcription, the way Knuth does it in tAoCP.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
For me, as an early stage startup founder, I'd prefer SaaS. At this stage I don't want to have to think about anything that could've been handled for me. At a later stage I might prefer self-hosted, but not sure.
"I think that's my main argument - this text-to-speech is the same as doing it for personal notes,"

I don't know if this is actually true? Because this isn't suing individual audiobook holders, it's suing the company that is choosing to sell copyrighted-text-in-speech-to-text as a service.
ha, great link -- here's another version of the clip from the article that isn't region blocked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFzze2o_NYY
Incredible work, would love to start using something like this.

I personally need a self hosted plan with enterprise support.

But your pricing plans look great for the hobbyist and small shop.
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>For the same reason you're not entitled to a free (or even discount) paperback if you buy the hardback, or why I can't return the paperback I dropped in the bathtub for new copy

And people wonder why pirates exist...
I just happen to live in a city where this is quite common - whole streets where every house with multiple apartments has electric heating (overall not a majority by any means but still common). I was contrasting with other countries where this is not only uncommon, it's basically completely non-existing. Even in countries like Bulgaria, Romania, or Moldova despite having some of the cheapest electricity in Europe. [0]

If I understand correctly from other comments below, Belgium seems to use this form of heating despite having some of the highest prices for electricity [0]. Is that the case?

And yes, it is expensive (for a 2 floor house with electric heating including water, total electricity was in the 3-4K Euros per year range). I assume there's no viable alternative for the particular buildings. Usually the rent is substantially lower for those houses (I lived in houses where the rent was lower than the nebenkosten+electricity for this exact reason).

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
The Eight Basic Scripts