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> Can modern Text to Speech voices replace professional voice over actors?

It's a bit like saying can super intelligent AI create better Sonic the Hedgehog games.

Once you get nice Text To Speech the fabric of society will change dramatically.

I guess in a video game you can spend hours choosing and modifying parts of the speech, so a professional could do great work with text to speech that in normal society wouldn't work. But it doesn't seem like what they are talking about.
Interesting. Now that vehicles are entirely electric does it mean that the electronics giants will challenge the automotive ones?
2nd layer avoids bloating the ledger. Once limits of 2nd layer are being explored, you can make adjustments to 1st layer with information about how that'll improve 2nd layer throughput. This is like arguing that we shouldn't have in-memory caches, we should just have faster disks

Fees prevent spam
That is a good point about signalling. I guess he does not want to increase the number of users.
It is something that I prefer to have in a VCS. At one end of the spectrum you treat a repository as a object which a containing repository can subclass with specific changes. Such a system would allow things like basic driver frameworks for a bunch of devices to be in their own repository and the 'critical bits' that make them work in a system of type 'x' would end up being a that repository + changes. You can kind of do this with git where you create a branch for each system x, y, and z in the repository and then your submodule is driver repo branch x but that doesn't put the maintenance burden in the right place (the system X maintainer).
The perf/power graphs there are some bullshit synthetic metric with combined CPU+GPU performance. So indeed it is yet to be seen if this translates into better battery life.
Time for Google to support open innovation for real.

Some Key principles for open innovation

Creating value is not an end but a means for making our world better.
You embrace openness when creating value for your customers.
You use an OSI approved license when developing software.
You use an Creative Commons License to share documentation that has value.
You embrace openness as basic value for knowledge sharing and growth. Think of open science, open data, open access, open research.
Knowledge and improvements should be beneficial and reachable for everyone.
Your organization is inclusive.
I very strongly support Google’s side of this case. But them claiming to champion open innovation is incredibly condescending and frankly bullshit. They’re pursuing this case exclusively for financial motives (which I don’t think there’s anything wrong with to be clear). But the fact that there’s some public good behind it is just a happy coincidence for their marketing department. They’d just as happily be on Oracle’s side if that made financial sense to them.
I actually prefer SVN and HG style branches where you keep the branch history as a known formal branch, then have one merge back to Trunk.
It is unclear to me how far back you are saying SVN did not have branching.
I would like the [new] Dell XPS 2-in-1 with the 3840x2400 screen, as an OLED - using an AMD processor. There's been a lot of complaints about the keyboard but i find it strangely fantastic. Yes it takes getting used to, but I can type faster on _reliable_ low-profile keys. Wish the SSD weren't soldered in. Seriously, I've waited forever for 3840x2400. I like the Surface laptops but I need at least >= 2160 in the vertical so i can watch a 1080p movie at native resolution and have it take up a quarter of the screen while I websurf/program. :(
> Git has a couple obvious flaws, and I expect its successor will be the one that fixes one of them

The successor might very well be git 3.0, though.
Open source ecology has yearly meetings and projects. There is also have a slack group, iirc.
I thought more of something to print on a t-shirt :)
I actually think the trend is starting to reverse. At least in the area where I live in Ashland, OR where I have a 10-acre farm.

What I'm seeing is products are becoming more and more niche. Kind of like how craft beers became a thing. I think it's easier than ever for a farm to create specialized products and sell them directly to consumers. Before this way of ecommerce tools, it was nearly impossible for a small farm to sell without a broker or distributor or wholesaler. These people consolidated to give pricing power ie Tyson Foods which then forces farms to consolidate in this race to the bottom.

By eliminating middlemen, direct to consumer sales is better for the consumer. It's cheaper and products are better and more specific. In my industry distributors want to make 15% and retailers want 40%. Paying for the shipping is almost always cheaper than buying it in a store. You'll also generally get better products.

Really the only reason to buy from a store is convenience.
Bitcoin has decentralized non-custodial second layers.

But if they didn't-- which would be sad-- your logic doesn't follow: Is the USD not cash because paypal exists and is widely used?

Venmo is venmo. Venmo adoption Bitcoin as a currency on their platform would not turn Bitcoin into venmo. It would just create another option for using Bitcoin-- one with it's own positive and negative trade-offs.

There is a balance. The system is not very valuable at the extremes of resource usage or limited capacity, like many other systems.
No we are not. Lots of devs, miners and businesses got together and forked to BCH.

The only thing holding up BTC price is Tether, it will fail and Ethereum and BCH will lead the space. The rest is pretty much bullshit because Ethereum and BCH together can almost do anything.
> Other times, the change rendered the title nonsensical: "XYZ is now closed source" -> "XYZ Changelog".

My understanding of this policy is that the editorializing should be done in the comments rather than the submission of the title. -- A submission (and presumably number of upvotes/comments from others) already indicates that the article has some importance, and opinions about it have a 'level playing field' in the comments.

I think this also supports that the comment section is the place for interesting/insightful discussion.
As a rule of thumb, sugars trip the insulin absorption endocrine pathways (weight gain) in the body more readily than the other macros. Fats are energy-rich, so combining sugars with fats means you're tripping the weight gain mechanisms with extra chemical energy present.

It's also why honey glazed bacon tastes amazing.
This is the new definition of open. A documented API, probably with no guarantees and many requirements. Is the Nest thermostat really open when you can only write values to it via the cloud? Why not a simple local mqtt solution? I would not call this "open".
So does the federal treaty state specifically that land sold does not have to provide easement? If not, it seems like a weak argument. By that same logic, he could also put a casino on it and say that since the land was part of the federal treaty, he no longer has to abide by any state law at all while on the property.
The "bcash" term is used to attack BCH. It makes many of the attackers (that are everywhere on social media) pretty easy to recognize. They attack BCH because it is the only Bitcoin still working to allow massive scaling. Dark forces captured BTC to stop it from becoming a real peer-to-peer electronic cash for the world's people. BCH is keeping that dream alive and the dark forces have been attacking BCH since before it existed.
Still limited to 1 000 000 bytes per 10 minutes and then some for segwit which was a unnecessary hack job that actually makes blocks bigger without much added throughput.
Actually it sometimes really means "it is too hard".
I don't think that's true. I've been using git's CLI since I started using git a few years ago, and exactly zero of my problems with git could've been solved by a different user interface (be it GUI or a "better" designed CLI). Pretty much all of my problems have been with my lacking understanding of the abstractions that git uses to make all of the powerful things it can do possible.
I share your sentiment. In the case of farming is not so much progress as regress, at least in many cases.

For example, in Europe farmers can get the money from the EU, but only if they use certain seeds. So basically there are a couple of crops to choose from that get repeated year by year. What happens to the soil is a great disaseter. Obviusly nobody can use more natural kinds of fertilizers these days and the food gradually loses its nutrient value. The farmers are happy about announcing their bio certification but very few actually care about what happens to the soil. A similar "optimization" is being done with animal farming. It's disgusting and very far from actual progress.
> Or maybe it would make vegetables the new "meat" in terms of ethical concerns. Do vegans distinguish between something like carrots (where you basically kill the entire plant) and apples (where the fruits are harvested but the tree remains in tact)?

Actually, there are fringe but growing number of people who hate vegans because vegans kill and torture plants. Plants after all have senses and can feel and communicate with each other. And they find people who eat fruits disgusting since fruits are a plants' womb and eggs.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170109-plants-can-see-hear-...

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/plants-have-feelings...

Just like vegans, these people have too much time on their hands and an unhealthy desire to feel morally superior to others.
Once limits of 1st layer are explored (the Bitcoin developers have never even bothered to research where the limits are) you can augment it with 2nd layer solutions. Both should of course be done simultaneously, and never focus on one to the exclusion of the other.

Even the Lightning Network whitepaper states it needs much larger blocks, and for it to work well you need to be able to settle quickly and cheaply on-chain, which is not the case with full blocks.
The MonsterWriter app looks awesome, I'll check it out.
Hardly, because building LN on the 1MB base layer is like building a pyramid upside down, it's unstable and creates more problems than it was meant to solve.

Lightning was supposed to make tx fees low right? Well it technically has, but it also introduced the following problems that Bitcoin never had:

- LN requires that both sender and receiver be online at the same time to transact. This never existed on Bitcoin.

- If you're an LN merchant accepting payments, you must periodically topoff your side of the channel...just so you can keep accepting money. This problem never existed on Bitcoin. I can have an empty address on Bitcoin and receive any amount of money without any limits.

- In Lightning when making a transactions you must always reserve the current Bitcoin onchain miner fee, so that if either channel party wants to close the channel it'll get accepted and mined by a Bitcoin miner. Well when Bitcoin fees hit $3 a few months ago, 60% of the Lightning network capacity was locked up in miner fees lol... defeating the purpose of microtransactions and the LN network

- In Bitcoin my coins can only be stolen if I leak my private key. Well for LN your money can be stolen simply by not being online to monitor your money. In addition to stealing your LN private keys, a bad user can attempt to steal your funds when you're offline. Which is why LN requires a 3rd party service called Watchtowers to watch over your funds. Way more complicated than Bitcoin

- The unsolvable routing problem. A good chunk of LN transactions will fail simply because the routing is weighted and chanes constantly. Compare that to Bitcoin's gossip network which doesn't require any weighted routing. FYI weighted routing is currently a mathematically unsolved problem.

- LN is centralizing around LNbig.com At one point LNBig.com had over 70% of the entire LN network capacity. LN will continue to centralize around these big hubs, because they can offer cheap connections and low fees than a regular peer can. Welcome to Bank of America LN Hub TM.

- With Bitcoin I can keep my money in a cold wallet. With LN it's either a hot wallet or cold wallet and I must close all my channels and pay the Bitcoin onchain fee just to close it. You're literally choosing betwen low fees OR security with Lightning, where as with Bitcoin you have both.

- Both creators of Lightning Drya and Poon have publically stated LN was never meant to be a scaling solution for Bitcoin and show many problems that will simply never be solved. Like the race condition when a big hub closes and hundreds of users all attempt to race to transmit their transaction to miners.

- In the Lightning whitepaper, LN requires AT LEAST 133MB+ blocks for global adoption for LN to work without congestion... And Blockstream blocked a minor 2MB increase. So good luck.

So congrats to Lightning, for "solving" 1 problem and creating 12 new ones.

There's many more, but these are the ones easily digestable by users without going into the deeper technical problems with LN. There's a reason Lightning is always 18 months away from completion....for 5.5 years now. While Bitcoin Cash just works.
I have contracted on the side a bit, but only for close friends and family. It's not really for the money, these are people I care about doing things I'm interested in, but at some point I found that having a formal paying relationship made everyone behave better, and kept me more interested. I'll admit the family side can be a little fraught- I think one of my relatives is still sore I wouldn't work past a certain point for free, but I think the boundaries are worth it.

I'm lucky in that I've been a career generalist and my personal network includes business owners. A lot of small to mid-sized business owners really want a second opinion on whatever the heck it is their full-time IT person is telling them. If you are already serving as that second opinion, its not inappropriate to so "hey, I'm happy to help out here, but I could be a lot more available on this sort of stuff in a formal consulting relationship." If they are interested, you can pursue it, if not, you've established some boundaries.
This is hackernews dude, you don't control this one.
> Bitcoin users might get increasingly tyrannical about limiting the size of the chain so it's easy for lots of users and small devices.

He was talking about people like you. He didn't advocate for a centrally planned block limit. Stop trying to twist his words.

Gavin Andresen and Jeff Garzik are well known big blockers so stop trying to imply otherwise. At least here I won't get censored by theymos like on r\bitcoin and bitcointalk.
Sure, if that was the law. But I don't think California law requires ca to purchase the land via eminent domain. The law is especially for this case where an easement is a defacto requirement when dealing with beach access. The legal process of emminent domain would be far too cumbersome for the many hundreds of miles of California beach line.
For most of us, even with DVCS there is one copy of the repos that is more important than all the rest - the one attached to the CI or deployment tools. It’s only decentralized as long as this copy has only short periods of unavailability. Hours are bad, days are much worse.

Linus seems to have a very different development model than almost all of the rest of us. And if Linus is asynchronous, then so is the codebase he maintains.

If you or I have eight different PRs going it’s because we have eight different promises being made to customers. Rejecting them has real consequences that we feel. For Linux many of those are externalities.
Reading this headline gave me a feeling of ... nostalgia. I remember similar claims when genetic engineering first appeared in the 1990s.

The thing is that humans have had the technology to read and write genes in various ways for quite a while. The problem is that this editing involves a programming-like-activity on a system vastly, inconceivably, more complex and interconnected than any human constructed computer.

Which to say, whole-organism engineering cannot happen if we use current methodologies. In fact, my guess would be that the problem qualifies as "AI complete" [1]. This doesn't mean it can't be solved but it seems mostly to be solved if/when general purpose AI is created. That may happen in 30 years or 10 years with a huge breakthrough or it may always be 30 years away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete
U.S. denies Iran's Zarif a visa to attend U.N.: U.S. official
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my personal favorite value for the Hubble constant is the "c" divided by the age of Universe, it results in 70.8 km/s/Mpc, right in the middle of the other 2 established Hubble constant's values, a very nice coincidence that the objects at the Universe age distance are running away exactly with "c".
For what it's worth, before I became a vegetarian that would have also sounded gross to me. I avoided nearly all vegetables, most sauces (even on dishes like pasta), any kind of salad dressing (and most salads as well). I still only really drink water.

I feel like there's a really big hump to get over with expanding a pallet, where once you have even just one or two new foods under your belt it becomes easier to learn to like other ones. For me, it was (and still is) kind of a snowball effect. I'm eating more variety of food now than I ever ate before, but I'm still a lot more narrow than other people I know.

I spent a relatively large portion of my adult life trying to learn to eat vegetables, and it wasn't until midway through transitioning to a vegetarian that I suddenly discovered the magic of sauteing with a little butter and salt instead of boiling vegetables until they were all soft and waterlogged and horrible, or baking them until they just turned into hot mush. That was honestly kind of surreal -- years of not liking veggies, and occasionally trying them in different recipes to see if something had changed, and not having anything change. And then in the space of a few weeks suddenly very quickly realizing that crunchy string beans with a tiny bit of soy sauce were delicious and that I really wanted more food like that.

That's not to say you would like the same stuff. The point is, learning to eat more things is hard, and being a picky eater is hard, and just in case you're stressed about it, don't stress about it. Just keep trying at your own pace and don't worry too much. As long as you keep occasionally experimenting, eventually you'll find a few things you like, and your pallet will expand from there.

And even if you stay a picky eater, as long as you're still getting a decent nutritional intake, and assuming you're meeting whatever dietary goals you have, then you're fine.
Business model for small market size
I am building a university admission platform which enables students from different countries to complete, submit and track application process across the world. Since i am starting in one of asian countries, it seems to me that the market size is small . Is it still worth doing it ? if so , what kind of business model could be best fit for that ?
If this is really your life outlook, you should perhaps seek guidance from a mental health professional.
And you sound like you didn't read the article, like the other poster I was responding to.

The issue isn't necessarily that they're open 24/7. It's that they offload all of the risk and management of that onto their franchises. If a local 7-Eleven has trouble hiring people to work late night shifts, then the expectation is that the owner is supposed to work it 24/7. You MUST be open 24/7 every single day of the year and as the article demonstrates, shutting down for even a day means losing everything.

I'm not surprised to see people on HN defend such incredibly hostile and toxic work environments, but I am disappointed. Why don't you try working such hours and see how things work out for you and your family?
They did discuss the case of an alarm becoming more insistent if a pilot didn't notice it. I think it's a small hop from that to "We will only charge you for the ads that people notice in our ad supported VR game" type stuff.

I assume you could also use this for ad targeting if you could get people to watch the right content with their brain reading VR helmets on. "This person focused a bit more on the Cadillac driving through the screen than is typical. Let's show them a Cadillac ad."
There are other things but first thing that comes to mind is tgat Youtube has several orders of magnitude more content than others. Netflix is not a similar service.
Git makes it easier to do a fork but you could certainly fork a subversion repo. I’m fairly certain you could sort of a merge process across multiple upstreams.
It is not good to make implicit assumptions that are not generally shared. Your post is either a cruel joke, or you assume certainty about something like reincarnation (another life). That might be "obvious" to you, but if you have just a bit of interest in what others think, you'd know that for a very large majority, that is not obvious at all. Do you write for yourself or for an audience?

I had a neighbour once that made the boldest claim about "what must be in the universe", never empathizing with others but just making the wildest claims about supernatural phenomena. She ended up being committed at an institution.
FAA checking potentially “catastrophic” issue with 737 Max wiring
Yes read this history

https://www.removeddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6rxw7k/...
Would it have been illegal to buy and resell stock from the supermarkets?
my 2c: The future will be sustainable city states. Food shouldn’t be traded as a commodity. It has caused terribly ecological and environmental collateral damage.

Most food production should be taken indoors/covered cropping/CEA and commodity food crops should be taken off speculative financial exchanges and markets(Wall Street/commodity markets) but traded at consumer level.
Presume you mean coconut oil is worse?

(See https://youtu.be/vCHPhIzOUOw for a reasonable review.)
sorry for the buzz kill but I feel super weird about how something that was once a corporation class tool is now a casual consumer thingie.

I do wish for exascale in the medical field though.

I even-more-wish that the energy world can see ~similar improvements in efficiency.
Indeed, I could say "I have can use this bare wire to exert precise control over my Intel Pentium" - after all, I can add voltage anywhere I want!
It took me maybe eight months before I was willing to perform open heart surgery on a subversion repo. Two years to dare to try the same thing with git, and I was much more anxious about the whole thing. At the three year mark I have the same ambivalence about things working out that I did in less than a quarter of the time with the previous system.

That’s a little too much to explain away with variability.
> That would let you support "reviewer:person@foo.bar"

It's very weird to me that you would use reviewer as your example because that's pretty much the exact point of the signoff feature.