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I don't like to downplay such efforts (education in particular) but as a really big organization, who is putting its first foot out of the K8s door, this is a really lackluster approach. You basically have video lectures at this "academy". Not sure if you have noticed the scene out there but one can learn a whole lot more by reading and practicing on site like Katacoda then they would spending the time watching lectures on this site. In any case, VMware is a behemoth when it comes to VMs, and K8s is a match made in heaven for you (no big deal if you came late to the party, you'll be able to catch up better than anyone else - so goes the logic of course).

In my opinion, if you are honestly looking to educate, and it is not just a marketing, then look into delivering the education that is better than anyone else.
If PayPal decided to charge you a $10 per month for “maintenance costs”, how would you stop them from doing so?
A more basic root cause is that college has become so expensive that there's incredibly strong economic motivation to cheat. Lack of morals is perhaps an equal contributor. The gaming described in the article was nauseating.
Such is the nature of people. My father worked in property tax assessing, so I've known about the specific rules in Michigan and how to minimize my personal tax bill for my entire life. If you build a system with a bunch of complex rules, someone will adjust to optimize their outcomes under those rules. Just look at building permits in any heavily populated location, from both the perspective of the person applying and the neighbors.
Now we are getting somewhere. That would be one reasonable if boring policy :-) Compared to todays reports from different parts of the world about

- feedlots,

- constant use of antibiotics,

- use of food grade grain for animal feed

- unhealthy overconsumption in small parts of the human population

- while others are starving

it sounds like an improvement.

If you ask what I want though I still think we could do even better than that.

There are a number of other parameters I think we should try to optimize for as well instead of thinking just vegan/not vegan:

- Regional and national or even local production to reduce fragile dependencies and reduce the need for transport.

- Healthier food.

- Happiness.

- Better conditions, both for workers and for the livestock.

- etc
He did have a fuel cost and explicitly mentioned the range extender.
I always genuinely wonder where does the high cost of college tuition come from? Ok, if you doing some highly technical major (medicine or technology) which involves you working with cutting edge equipment with maintenance cost but does it really have to be that much? (~$50k pa). Doesn't scale up reduce cost? Also, what about majors like liberal arts? What are the students paying for?

The only other thing that comes to mind is faculty cost but are teachers that highly paid to warrant such high tuition?
Knuth had to quit giving out real checks (which nobody actually ever cashed, anyway) for exactly this reason.
Also 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9785944
I just realized that I asked the opposite of the question I wanted to know the answer to. I'll fix it above.
I was in this situation. This post plus the grandparent post above it really strike a chord. On one hand, creating a sink or swim environment means I am probably a more resilient person having gone through college with limited family support compared to my peers. On the flip side, I am sure I'd be even more "successful" had I been able to focus more on improving my own skills or grades or academic research than working multiple jobs just to raise cash to pay bills.

The above may sound a little like venting, but it's more to stress the point that financially stringent or irresponsible parents, or parents who just don't believe in investing in kids, is a negative drag on the economy and we are under-utilizing young people's intellectual potential by stressing them out over money.

Related to the top-level post, I'd be angrier at rich families gaming the system except this is absolutely a whole system that needs re-worked from near-scratch.
It’s insane that college finance has anything to do with parents. Probably a mistake to even have expensive colleges, unless you’re deliberately trying to reproduce inequality.
In Windows I just implement in COM and it can also be used by any language on the platform, without resorting to plain old C.
That's not generally about outright fabrication, but instead due to invalid statistical procedures.

Many students are still taught, in 2019, that the appropriate way to conduct a multiple linear regression analysis is to:

1. Fit univariate comparisons to all your explanatory variables of interest

2. Take the significant variables and put them in a multiple regression analysis

3. Report the p-values from the regression analysis as valid and meaningful.

This is incorrect for several reasons (type 1 error rate inflation, confusion about marginal and conditional effects etc.), but people still do it. That's before we even account for publication bias, in which null results are often "shelved" or not accepted for publication.
1.2m home and $250k/yr is not enough to have $60k disposable in places where everything runs on monopoly bucks (SF, NYC, etc). Travel 4hr in any direction from those kind of places and you easily have $60k of disposable income.
>In general a problem is that wealthier people have the time, energy, and expertise to manipulate the system better than poorer people.

Notwithstanding its own merits, this argument is a non sequitur. This is not a case of rich people affording a maneuver that poor people can't. Poor people won't ever be in the situation where they have to separate from their kid in order to qualify for financial aid. In that sense, poor people have an advantage.
Your probably to young to recall Maxwells shady dealings in the political/spook world (some people think that is what killed him)

And also stealing hundreds of millions from pensions funds that lead to wholesale reform of the pensions industry in the UK
I don’t see anything wrong with this. Colleges are priced for maximum wealth extraction by charging people as much as they can possibly pay so smart families are working the system to outplay them at their own game. This is exactly the same as the medical system where prices are set based on ability to pay and not service provided.
There's also a strong bias to remember/talk about the cases that turned out poorly, not the ones that turn out well.

"CIA bungles [thing]" is a splashy headline and memorable story. "US does 10% better in trade negotiation because it was reading the other side's emails" is not. But one happens much more often than the other.
>>Third, when customers opt in, only Apple employees will be allowed to listen to audio samples of the Siri interactions. Our team will work to delete any recording which is determined to be an inadvertent trigger of Siri.

Unless the government send a warrant, then we will share anything we have with them and we will do what they want to do. i.e.: "we want all audios from this zipcode".
Of course there is no UB in the source code. That makes the problem worse, not less bad... Non-nullness is inferred from 'node->child = NULL;' which would be UB would node be NULL. At this point the compiler thinks it is superfluous to check whether 'node' is null and start to propagates that, except it messes up.

It seems that it messes up extremely badly because even -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks does not seem to fix the issue :/
Wealthy people don't need to work a side gig. They get paid vacation. They can afford homes with shorter commutes. They can pay for services like cleaning to free up time for other stuff. They probably have parents with more free time (due to wealth) to take care of their kids. They can afford preschool.

All that means more time.
No, not at all. Escobar is a really good case on why money laundering laws are good. Escobar had BILLIONS of dollars that he could not easily move around and this limited his ability to influence elections and politicians and straight outright control whole countries. Not having the ability to easily drop thousands of dollars into the pockets of thousands of politicians saved whole countries from be swallowed up by people like Escobar. Yes, he could it on a limited scale but if he had not been hindered by anti-money laundering, Escobar would have been much worse.
Have they fixed their serious-sounding data loss bugs that have been discussed here in the past?
Is anyone else seeing OpenDNS security warnings on the headlone link to the site?
Sure, if you redefine nutrition in a way that you like, you're correct. You're not taking my words in good faith, though.
When studies come out that the present value of the lifetime earnings boost from a college degree has dropped below the cost of tuition, the media will run a series of stories, the next year's matriculation rates will collapse, and schools will panic. What happens next, I don't know, but that is certainly one thing that will control costs... eventually.
They used to have background which causes interesting effect when scrolling: https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/23/7876777/sonos-sound-wave-...
No its pretty much evil - are not bursaries gifts.
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Hmm. By compatibility do you mean translatable metadata across filesystems?
It’s almost like this problem should be handled via progressive income/wealth taxation that makes tuition free/affordable to everyone. That way, the rich still pay more, just not in direct tuition.
And securities fraud.
Wouldn't be easier to just upgrade mongodb, which is no longer broken? Unless its api is not backward compatible?
Because you're an adult legally. Well except when it comes to paying for college. Then you're a child dependent on your parents.
> I've known about the specific rules in Michigan and how to minimize my personal tax bill

Any tips? :)
I agree. Fellow "cheapskates" who just want to get from Dublin to Edinburgh on a cheap flight probably admire his thrift.
> I doubt they have more time and energy

You'd be wrong. The poor are working two jobs. The poor are begging their boss for a couple hours off to go stand in line to get their kids on medicaid. The poor are walking to the bus stop. The poor are rushing to the apartment manager to give them partial rent so they still have a roof over their head.

Time is something the poor have very little of.

Edit: I see some of you drive by disagree with me. I see this all the time as foster parents. The poor are much more likely to be in a situation where their children are removed and so talking with the bio parents, I hear their struggles. But keep drive by disagreeing with me if that makes you feel better.
What if a kid is actually disowned by their rich parents, and isn't getting anything from them? No aid for you?
My parents essentially did this to me, but I don't really blame them and will probably do the same for my kids.

Not everyone should go to college, and if you do go it really better be worth the investment. I chose to go to community college and transfer, and I ended up finishing college with no student loan at all because I worked through my two years in community college.

This was largely because they taught me to value the ROI on any investment. I not only don't think they did anything wrong, but I think those lessons are much more valuable, because the stress of college payments was on my shoulders, and thus I had more personal investment in succeeding.
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It seems a little irrelevant as to how he died exactly IMO. We already know there were people who wanted to kill him. What I'm more curious about is why Oliver Stone thought that an overly effeminate Alexander was the best depiction of him.
The enterprise edition is not much better. The Dutch ministry of justice and security hired a company to investigate this and the conclusion was "New DPIA on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining".

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2019/06/11...
If we handled N concurrent requests per process, a crash would definitely have the bleed-over effect we're trying to avoid, where a problem in a single request caused the other N-1 to fail. "Crash" meaning primarily OOM or unhandled rejections (which we exit on). And yes, the other big problem is blocking the event loop with an inefficient regexp, massive sort operation, clumsy use of Ramda, etc. This sort of blockage causes our ECS health checks to fail, so the container eventually gets killed.

"Never returning" is an interesting problem in Node. We have gRPC request timeouts, so the request fails on the client side after a set amount of time. Our Node server gets a cancellation event when this happens, but there's no guarantee that the in-flight request ever stops processing or gives up its resources, even if it's not blocking the event loop. E.g. our request handler could have a while(true) loop that continually does an async network request, and even though each gRPC request eventually times out, we would eventually have a swarm of zombie while(true) loops that are operating. To address this problem, we thread a lightweight context object into our framework which can essentially call an isCancelled() method. Before doing most low-level async operations (e.g. network requests), we check isCancelled() and throw if the gRPC request has timed out.

The integrations are all written in Typescript. As mentioned in another comment, we've attempted multiple processes per container and multiple containers per task. Right now, we see the bigger win as being able to fix "all of the above" and run multiple requests per Node process, but it'll take some legwork to get there :)
I don't doubt that they have more time and energy.
This is not cheating. What they are doing is legal. It may not be moral. But, hey, who am I to judge others.
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I'll try to answer these one at a time.

1. Does text-to-speech require AI?

This one is a bit tricky to answer since it requires defining "AI". AI as a moniker has been used to describe deep neural networks, search algorithms, expert systems and logic systems, particle filters, SVMs, etc etc. Almost all text-to-speech (TTS) systems are based on a combination of some of these machine-learning methods and digital signal processing (DPS), so I would say yeah, text-to-speech is exactly what AI describes, even if it doesn't resemble human-like thinking like other AI applications do.

2. Is there any active work in non-AI methods?

This one again is a bit tricky for the same reason as before. However, there's a ton of pieces of the TTS pipeline that aren't AI in the current sense of the word (machine learning with neural networks or HMMs or other classifiers). For example, concatenative systems will traditionally take a large database of audio, divide it into chunks, and then recombine those chunks, using some interpolation method such as (OLA, PSOLA) to overlap those chunks. Choosing the chunks to overlap to create the target speech becomes an AI / search problem, using some sort of acoustic model to predict the acoustic parameters of each frame and then using a Viterbi search algorithm with target / join costs to find the optimal chunks. As another example of non-AI parts of the pipeline, text normalization tends to involve a lot of hand-written rules; for example, should you say "5/10/2019" as "May tenth, twenty nineteen", "the tenth of may twenty nineteen", "the tenth of may two thousand nineteen", or even "october fifth twenty nineteen". This decision and the conversion is often done with a ton of handwritten rules or grammars (see Kestrel, Google's text normalization system, and the open-source version, cleverly named Sparrowhawk). Anyways, the real answer is that TTS is always a combination of AI (machine learning) approaches with specialized text and audio processing algorithms.

3. Which bits are the AI bits?

The AI bits are the bits where you need to make some sort of heuristic decisions, and you'd like to make them by imitating some target speech. For example, things like part of speech detection, predicting acoustic parameters (spectrograms, F0, etc), more recently waveform synthesis as well.

4. Do deep methods significantly improve on the state of the art?

Yes, though they also come at a cost. For example, deep sequence-to-sequence networks make great frame-level models: Tacotron and similar models can do things like emotional and stylized voice synthesis much better than what I've seen HMMs and other non-deep models do. As another example, WaveNet / WaveRNN / etc are some of the only parametric speech models (that is, generating the waveform from scratch instead of copying it from a database of audio) that can match the quality of concatenative models (copying audio from a database), but they can be quite difficult to deploy due to high computational cost. Overall, though, yeah, deep methods and all the improvements to neural networks in the past few years are having a profound impact on the quality and naturalness of TTS.
The article on the null-pointer bug goes into technical details about what the exposed error case is - the fact that it's a bug is made super clear - the fact that it's a logic bug is pretty readily apparent.

The Stripe article starts with "I worked at Stripe for 3+ years" so Stripe is clearly a company, the article itself is focused on the operations & team cohesion side of stripe not on their line of business.

The article about Julia is hosted on `julialang` and within the first paragraph there is a sentence containing: "So I thought it might be helpful to the broader Julia community—and maybe even for other programming language communities—to actually write down Julia’s release process"

None of these articles give you a full and complete comprehension of their topics - walking away from Strip I don't know if they're a listed company or what their market cap is - but I was given enough information to make it through.

ACH is not a common jargon term, and even with common jargon there usually is some explanation, if someone writes a well-written article about some MySQL quirk, it'll probably have the term "SQL" somewhere in the first paragraph and it'll certainly have the term "database" and "query" - those hints are enough to grasp the general subject matter. The word "bank" doesn't show up in the article until paragraph three and the jokey description of doing it to "a dead person" immediately derails the users ability to grasp that it's a monetary transaction - it's perfectly logical that monetary transactions need to have error handling around dead, missing and not-yet-existing people, but leading with that point harms readability.

I think this article is a great example of a poorly written piece that with some very minor edits to clearly define the scope of the article would be a lot more legible.
If MOO2 has taught me anything, a good spy network is excellent at giving your opponent an advantage unless you waste resources trying to cover your ass, in which case you have wasted resources and the opponent still makes you suffer.
Several years ago, before it became unaffordable, California residents were entitled to education at any state school, including UC Berkeley, for free. Community colleges were very definitely part of that. The better question is what is the out of state or out of district cost of your friend's CC?
Please don't downvote-bait or call names in arguments or take HN into ideological flamewar (edit: or on generic tangents). All three (edit: four) of those things are in the site guidelines, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and following them from now on, we'd appreciate it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20819642.
It's not elitism. ACH is a term that should be familiar to anyone even remotely informed on the topic. It's ok to read articles on things you are unfamiliar with but it is also on you as the reader to educate yourself when you read on topics that you are unfamiliar with.

If every detail was explained in layman's terms, reading would be terribly boring and nuanced technical writing would be dead.
I wonder if that's just treating the symptom and not the root problem. I don't pretend to know what the root is, but I could see how being able to discharge loans in bankruptcy could make the system worse.

Students could take out massive debt still backed by the government and declare bankruptcy shortly after graduation. There's still plenty of time to recover from that and still be in your 20s. Meanwhile, the taxpayer just got hosed in the process. That may even mean non-college graduates subsidized a fellow citizens degree with nothing to gain from it. The school still got paid, so I don't see that incentivizing lowing tuition.

I know some people claim the easy access to government backed student loans makes it too easy for college to increase costs by essentially inflating the supply of students. It's a very libertarian argument and the fix is to stop letting the government distort the marketplace for tuition. But something about reducing access to student loans doesn't sit well with me and feels like you'll still shut out large segments of the population.
The access to academic and scientific information and the right to information
He carefully cultivates the image of a man who utterly despises his own customers, but is far too miserly to allow an aircraft to crash.

That image will keep them going right up until they have a fatal crash, at which point the press, the government, and victims’ attorneys will use every word he has ever said about being cheap to crucify him and the company. Given their volume of flights, a fatal crash is statistically likely to happen at some point. I would be very careful ever making such statements if I were in such an industry.
> I think it's your expectations that are out of whack. Not every article needs to explain everything as if the reader is completely unfamiliar with the topic being discussed.

Oof.

User s9w appears to be German. ACH is a USA construct. The closest analog would be PE-ACHes for SEPA, of which OP might be familiar. Without context and operating from a localized search zone, googling ACH may render results irrelevant to the topic at hand, requiring marginally more google-fu than might otherwise make sense just to embrace a hackernews thread.

Hackernews in general is pretty US-centric in terms of assumptions, and this comment is emblematic of this defect.

In the future, you could just answer the question, or you could opt out of replying entirely. You never know what constraints a person has encountered when trying to answer it on their own. For all you know, the user asking must work with an impairment or disability rendering simple web queries as taxing or arduous.
I passed through Toronto twice last week. Had a fantastic meal here: http://www.nourishmoi.com/

And you’re right, I don’t regularly keep vegan. But I do like the option sometimes.
I agree that we should make that change, but it's important to note that if that happens, interest rates on new private student loans will jump upward to account for the risk of default. And they may start adjusting interest rates based on what you're studying.