skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I feel the publishers are simply afraid that buying an audio book that is captioned may cannabalize their text-based book business

It should. If I buy an audiobook version, the publisher should not expect me to buy the book in any other format. Thinking I will buy two copies is greedy.
I had a coworker try this, and it made her more jumpy, as she would catch somebody in her rear vision across the room.

She would audibly be surprised and distract others.
This sounds revolutionary, I'm going to try this! Thanks for sharing.
In at least some cases, it would be considered fair use. The wikipedia page on fair use has this to say, regarding Google's book scanning for example:

As part of the ruling that found the book digitisation project was fair use, the judge stated "Google Books is also transformative in the sense that it has transformed book text into data for purposes of substantive research, including data mining and text mining in new areas" [1]

To me it feels like a continuum. On one end of the scale, the model has been informed by copyrighted data. The model has learned something about the structure of the data, which generalizes to new examples easily. On the other end of the spectrum it's just an efficient encoding of the corpus dataset (in this case mappings of sounds to text). It's not learned anything...

How do you distinguish these cases? Can the second type of "machine learning" be used to circumvent copyright in some cases, and is it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_in_particula...
Because is just doesnt work. Since 2000 the amount of € (M3) has tripled while the economy grew by 50%. The money is just parked and not circulating in the economy. This is why it does not contribute to inflation. There are no good investments to be found, so adding money just adds to the sea of parked money.
It's not like they were first, and will probably have to change their name:

https://www.firestormviewer.org/
Without them China is never becoming a business center that attracts more money than absolutely necessary to manufacture or sell goods.

There exists recurring news articles about Chinese yuan trying to break US dollar hegemony etc. Or Russians, Iranians, Saudis etc. doing the same. These things never happen in the scale that matters because you need judicial independence and well developed business law to attract business and money.

Chinese businessmen are moving as much of their assets outside China because they know that their assets are theirs only conditionally.

Hong Kong and Singapore and the financial centers of Asia because they kept British common law. As long as Hong Kong law is separate and independent, Chinese can benefit from it.
A good paper dictionary usually has better usability than most Internet dictionaries. That being said, I tend to use Wiktionary quite a lot, but then usually use the sources it points to in order to verify the results.
“Why I'm not at CCCamp 2019”
The sign-up button for the developer plan doesn't work (Firefox 68.0.1). Nice idea though. It'd be neat to be able to host it ourselves, if you ever plan to release it as OSS.
This was an interesting article about the trend towards robotic surgery and the new methods to gain experience in such an environment.

https://hbr.org/ideacast/2019/08/how-robots-and-ai-are-chang...
Data science, file management and signal/digital processing projects
This is a tough one.

On the one hand since this is producing something directly from the audio that you have already paid for, not allowing this seems like it would be another example of the whole right to repair/modify and "you don't really own it" issues.

On the other hand, I think it's reasonable to say that the AI provides capabilities that current laws didn't anticipate. I'm also sympathetic to the argument that someone else in this thread made its an example of Amazon profiting off of something that they didn't make at the expense of those who did make it.
The funny bit is that it’s been illegal to read books to your kids under similar reasoning from publishers.

It just was never enforced because how would that be possible.

But now with these ML/NN/AI tech approaches products are coming out at scale. If I write an open source package and give it away for free and it takes text and produces audio performances from it, that’s fair use, I think.

Amazon commercializing is a different thing, but unless the publishers are going to sue parents from using text to speech and speech to text utilities on stuff they bought we’re going to get into an interesting legal area.
Self promotion here. I run a facebook page for "positive stories, humanity and love".

https://www.facebook.com/PositiveStoriesHumanityLove
How the Resignation of Italy’s Prime Minister Threatens the EU and the Euro
>Due to its unique status as a “Federal district” ceded to the government by Maryland and Virginia,

It should be noted that Virginia's portion was given back -- retrocession -- in 1847. This is why one option that comes up for providing voting rights is to give the non-federal government portions of DC back to Maryland. This would keep the Federal District separate from any state; but, residents of what is currently DC would have voting representation.

What was Virgina's contribution is Arlington County, VA.
Very cool and interesting stuff. Many thanks for the reply and info.
Once you go through these, you'll be a force to reckon with -

Author - https://www.udemy.com/user/anthonypalicea
Course - https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript
"At least three things are super weird here"

What was the third thing??
The comment, under which we have this discussion, gives it very specific context: where will you draw the line in the range of tools to transform audio for fair use.

Why would you consider pen+pencil and free app to transcribe audio to text different in terms of copyright infringement? Does Audible charge you more to use this feature?

What I see here is an attempt to dictate ways in which I can use book I already purchased - i.e. limit my rights.

What I also see: a bunch of companies that are trying to squeeze more juice from the market, which they are not even willing to serve in the first place, because they, being experts in the book market, couldn't figure out that market needs this feature, while a bunch of IT geeks, did.
Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.8.1 Released
It's pretty. Somehow Momentum, which is similar, didn't catch up to me. Is there any way to show the same favorites as with the default Chrome setup, only over the image of the day? :)
Legally I believe this distinction is quite clear (IANAL) between these two cases.

You can memorize a whole book, and it's not copyright infringement. If you, create a compressed zip of book you that infringes if you don't own the copyright.

If a trained model really doesn't infringe, then that's it copyright is dead. Because it's not difficult to overfit a model such that it can replicate the original work. And if that model is no longer under the original copyright it can be shared without restriction.
A mechanic which has put gas equipment for my car said that this is CRAZY. Oil could bear 35K km, but not the oil filter. He said that car should have oil change at ~10K km.
> I have a century old encyclopedia set - the fact it is not constantly updated makes it a fascinating piece of history.

Absolutely! I've got a German encyclopaedia from the beginning of the 20th century, and looking up societal terms is fascinating.

"Feminism" is "female behaviour by men", and only the secondary meaning references the women's movement.

"Women's question" is about the quest to give those rights to women that are "according to their their ability and potential".
Elite o’clock!
Yeah they silently killed my overclock
9 months ago by limiting the 6850k to 38x multi due to "Spectre Mitigation". It's the worst BS ever...

If I remove the Intel microservice dll from my windows system folder then I get my 41x back, but there's been no documentation forthcoming. Just finding out why speeds were nerfed required lots of research.

Having said that I can see that Asus may have finally released the required motherboard update for this. Updating requires me to reset everything by hand, as Asus doesn't let me simply back up settings - they are invalidated between bios versions. Between that and eating CPUs if using XMP, it's the worst motherboard I ever bought.

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-X99-GAMING/He...

Needless to say my days of building Intel systems are over.
Constant Time Recovery in Azure SQL Database
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal#Verbal_and_digital...

"An additional naming system has been published online by S. R. Rogers in 2007[21] that tries to make the verbal representation distiguishable in any case, even when the actual number does not contain numbers A-F. Examples are listed in the tables below."

"1743 one-thousek-seven-hundrek-fourtek-three"
Idle in 50 Lines of Code – (Idle?)
We are about to launch an prolog based DBMS. Incredibly powerful engine. Some prolog background here: https://medium.com/terminusdb

Watch this space!
IANAPhysicist, but couldn't information be radiated away? When you have a particle and antiparticle annihilating, the information about what collided and when is carried away by the radiation from that annihilation event; nothing remains at ground zero to be inspected.

As matter traverses the accretion disk and falls towards the event horizon, couldn't information about it be radiated away? As an observer, you could definitely tell whether somebody threw a planet or a planet-sized bunch of paperclips into a black hole by observing the accretion disk as it happened.
Is there a source or is that a guess at what happened? That sounds immensely incompetent to the point that I find it hard to believe
Which means either pointer+length get packed into their own structure to avoid mix up errors, thus requiring conversion function calls across libraries, or they are given separately manually, thus opening the door to the copy-paste mistakes from pointer+bad length that they are supposed to protect against.

Qt is as locked-in as any LPGL 3 FOSS project is.
Pspg – Unix pager designed for work with tables
Show HN: ossia score, a visual language combining dataflow and timeline
Cunningham's law in action.

"The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Cunningham%27s...
I think youtube does a bit of checking on views. The view counter is not real, IIRC the delay is due to asynchronous processing, youtube has time to do stuff in some cases. That's why a lot of videos are stuck at 320 views, that's the supposed limit above which the counting goes async and you get lots of vid with false views.
Went to check the landing page, looks nice.

Does not answer why I would choose this over all the other 1000000 of CRM offerings (just in our office we tried Zoho, Close.io, Salesforce, Pipedrive,....).

Plus, not fully sold on the "Built to last - Wobaka is like your favorite craft beer or artisan coffee. Made with love and hand-picked ingredients. No mega-corp here." pitch.

Great effort tho.
Working in a prolog first startup, this 'conversion' seems to be a regular enough experience. New core engineering recruits take a while, but then become evangelists!
Thank you very much for pointing this out. Also very interesting the article about the first person to write about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius_Kircher
Short Version:

The Resignation of the Italian prime minister last Tuesday will likely lead to the dissolvement of parliament and elections as early as this fall.

With the right-wing League party soaring in the polls there is a very real chance that they will be able to form a majority government without partners .

This is a risk to the EU and the euro because the League has been vocal about their plan to issue a parallel currency to the euro called the miniBOT. Having such a currency will enable the Italian populists to achieve where their Greek counterparts failed - because the EU will not be able to ensure compliance by threatening to freeze the banking system and paralyze the economy.
The reef, as currently constituted, is a lost cause, assuming neither political nor technological solutions to global warming emerge. Genetically engineered coral or algae is one possibility[1][2]. Another is carbon sequestration by massive production of olivine sand weathering in the ocean[3]. The cost of reversing anthropogenic climate change since the 1750s are about $16 trillion, which if done over 10 years, would cost 1.7% of global GDP.

[1]https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/coral-reef-genetic...

[2]https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.0122...

[3]https://elidourado.com/blog/dawn-of-geoengineering/
also this:

> Notable people who have discussed chicken hypnotism:

> - Werner Herzog. "known to hypnotize chickens; he also hypnotized the cast of his 1976 film Heart of Glass"

I wanna watch this movie now.

From the movies own wikipedia article:

> During shooting, almost all of the actors performed while under hypnosis. [...] The hypnotized actors give very strange performances, which Herzog intended to suggest the trance-like state of the townspeople in the story. Herzog provided the actors with most of their dialogue, memorised during hypnosis. However, many of the hypnotised actors' gestures and movements occurred spontaneously during filming.
Thanks for the bug report! It should be fixed now.

> It'd be neat to be able to host it ourselves, if you ever plan to release it as OSS.

The pricing is just a placeholder at this point, it is possible that there will be a self hosted plan, since it can be easily compiled to a single binary.
I think your example rather exemplifies what kind of cliches "Disney and Coca Cola" have established. This kind of role models is the universal monoculture, not a nurse called Vladimir.
When should I implement an ERP system?
My first job, I named each web server off of a different Simpson’s character, all attached to a big KVM, so I customized each desktop to the character, so I could easily tell what server I was in.
Great, another asinine buzz...non-word.
"cross-format products" is basically their way of saying "talking book as an app".

You can find lots of these on the App Store; in the days of yore they were also distributed on CD-ROM (as a separate purchase from the corresponding book and cassette book).

One of my favorites is the app for "Moo Baa La La La" which lets you tap on individual animals in addition to the "read-along" mode.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/moo-baa-la-la-la-sandra-boynto...

So, you could say that this ML product is putting certain software developers out of business.
Huh, I was under the impression that mitigation of speculative execution vulnerabilities was a one-time fix that has been implemented, accounted for and forgotten years ago. I'm surprised to hear it's still a factor in anything.
Is Telegram that bad? I thought it was fairly good. Atleast better than WhatsApp

Edit: Nvm, I remembered that telegram isn't e2e by default
1950s LSD Experiment – Artist [video]
That is exactly my point. With Ghost, I would have to resort to a third party service to have something so essential as a commenting system for a blog. Comments are a part of your blog's content and it is necessary to have your own control over it, as these third party providers can shut down or just ban your site for any reason(take Google Plus comments for instance which many blogs were using as a commenting platform for their blogs). Relying on a third party provider for comments should be a choice, not a compulsion.
Nice UI, very much in the style of Basecamp / 37Signals.
My faves are the early Webster's Dictionaries (I have an 1828 first edition reprint, and a New International Second Edition, Unabridged, that was published in 1934 and lives on a library stand in my office).

I'm also a huge fan of the complete Oxford English Dictionary (the final arbiter of the meaning of English words) and although I'd like to have the full multivolume edition, because of space contraints I settle for the older 2-volume micrographically reduced edition that comes with a Bausch & Lomb magnifying glass that lives in its own drawer at the top of the slipcase; I won this as a spelling bee prize.
If you're insane enough to full-screen the web on a large wide-screen monitor, can't you just hit the reader mode button in your browser?
Show HN: Free collection of techniques to reduce your SaaS churn [no sign-up]
Thanks! I know there are many CRMs out there. I'm trying to build one that I enjoy using and that is specifically made for small businesses. This way I can remove a lot of the stuff I don't care about and still have a nice and efficient system that is easy to stay on top of :).
> For urban systems, the European system can take advantage of the ﬂexible secondary; for example, transformers can be sited more conveniently. For rural systems and areas where load is spread out, the North American primary system is more ﬂexible.

I’ve often wondered how many of the differences between Europe and The United States are the result of population density.
According to GeneCards, these diseases are related to this gene for quite some time:

https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=CYFIP1
I have question regarding example of "Retrieving details of a file"

https://www.base-api.io/reference/files

The curl request uses [1] id and in response we get [2] id. Why is that?

[1] 6536fb5e-01b1-4a0c-b05b-33bac00c65ac

[2] ed7066dc-614c-48f3-8456-926598e88473
You’d have to do that for all results, not just one. This is basically what an event sourced system does: you store all the events and fold your state, so you can “play back” to any point in time. You could theoretically reverse from the end, but I haven’t seen it done.
Will the Rust compiler convert one to the other as a performance optimisation where possible?
Andrew Wakefield[0] is a disgraced and discredited former doctor who authored a fraudulent research paper in prestigious medical journal The Lancet which claimed a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.

Wakefield's "study" led to a decline in vaccination rates in the US, the UK, and likely several other countries, and has resulted in serious illnesses and deaths.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
The Cpp Core Guidelines suggest that the cutoff between copy and const reference should be "up to two or three words" (item F.16). Following this advice, the f32 vector would be passed by value, and the f64 vector would end up in the grey zone.

https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines/blob/master/CppC...
Thanks! I like their work :)
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> If you, create a compressed zip of book you that infringes if you don't own the copyright.

of course you don't - a compresssed zip, or any transformation of the text is a derivative work. But the neural network you use the text to train is not a derivative work unless you intentionally only used this single book to train it for the express purpose of reproducing the original text. In which case, that is no different than doing a format transformation, and that is protected under copyright.

What i m saying is that any book that is used as a source of knowledge cannot claim derivative work on the resulting culmination of knowledge.
your hand is not supposed to touch the paper. practice with a fountain pen
`if ('loading' in HTMLImageElement.prototype === true) {`

/rolleyes
May I ask where you come from? Back the days this is what I was learning as a kid in school and - from my subjective and biased perspective - I always considered this basic handwriting and not "calligraphy". (You know what I mean ...) Thanks for sharing!
It's worth noting that without a no claims bonus insurance is high in general.

Ireland (so utterly dysfunctional insurance market) but as a person in my mid-30's with impeccable driving record but no NCB (hadn't owned a car for years) I pay ~€1550 for the cheapest possible insurance on a 10 year old Honda Jazz. It should be under half that with a year of no claims.
>Today, the software _is_ there (well, mostly) and we can all take advantage of more cores.

Disagree. Not even "mostly". If I had a dime every time I saw some software stuck at 100% of one core... well, I'd have a few dimes a day.
If I were your mechanic I'd say that too. Heck, there is a whole industry that is working hard to convince you to change your oil every 3000 miles or three months.
There was no need to fabricate that part of the story for it to be interesting. It could have simply been about how freaking cool it is that the ocean has been turned into a sea of pumice (something I didn’t know was possible) and that someone sailed through it.
That's the edition of the OED that I have. I think this edition is more useable than the newer 1-volume edition, it's a little handier and less unwieldy.
Pragmatically storing security sensitive data using AWS KMS
using a tool to transcribe (for example, a tool provided by amazon) is the same as doing it myself.
Not even remotely in the same ballpark.
I’ve gone back to IRC over the last 12 months. And I seem to hear more and more people taking about it so maybe it’s making a comeback. Maybe the slight technical barrier to entry will work out to be a good thing.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like about a third of the functions in by_ref.cpp take their parameters by value:

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/should-small-rust-struc...
Strangely, I found that insurance on cars over ten years old gets really expensive, to the point where the car is effectively uninsurable. I don't know why - but it was surprising, coming from a place where I insured a '95 Mazda for about $35 a month
The example that cited upthread (a smaller ISP) had nothing to do with either of those examples, which are both extremes in terms of corporate culture.

Naming your servers after porn stars is the digital equivalent of having pin ups in your auto shop. Can you not see how this creates a hostile work environment for some employees? It’s inappropriate, unprofessional and unnecessary.

I shouldn’t even need to footnote this by saying that I don’t care whether someone enjoys porn in their personal life. If the business is not about porn, porn shouldn’t be a topic in the business.
Good to see, at the end of the article, that there are people thinking about different voltages and more sophisticated systems for transforming voltages. Now that so many devices are capable of running at quite low power it might be worth using USB-C alongside the usual power outlets for more than just computers.
For reference, the Māori seats were created in 1867 during the period where much Māori land was confiscated by govt, provoking wars, and the property ownership requirement for voting in the general roll (basically for "white" people, which in NZ are now referred to as "Pakehā") was scrapped a little over a decade later in 1879; while for almost the next century Māori were forced to participate on only the Māori roll, determining only handful of available seats -effectively forcing them into underrepresentation - until 1976.

If we were to say the intent was to "give Māori voting rights", I think it could be far more fairly characterized as "give Māori some voting rights but systematically ensure that this counts for substantially less than their non-Māori peers".
Science and Technology Industrial Parks Invigorated Western China’s Economy
In your sample, Bruce Wayne should be in company Wayne Enterprise, nobody knowshe is also in the justice league
At least in Czechia, cursive was taught until very recently. These days kids mostly learn Comenia Script [1].

[1] - http://www.lencova.eu/cs/gal_ukazky_cs
Oil in a diff (AWD car), oil in gearbox, oil filter. Break pads and discs (EV use regen breaking so the wear difference is significant).

In 5 years you may need to replace clutch etc.

No sure if EV needs any coolant replacements.