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Looking to convert text to audio (narration) but don't want the narration to sound robotic. What's the best-in-class ML model that does this kind of synthesis?
May I ask which of that you found to be the most difficult?

I've been thinking of going the same route, and I'm confident I can handle the paperwork and deliver, but it's the finding the clients part that worries me the most. Not sure if the problems I see are widespread enough to warrant founding a business and going through all that...
Have you considered Parcel, going forward? It seems to be a lot lighter and easier than Webpack.
Sigh. This is exactly the attitude that leads to the erosion of civil liberties.‘

2010: "It's just a private company doing it for advertising, why not?"

2020: "Eh, private companies are already doing it, might as well let government have access for contact tracing, just temporarily."

2022: "The government has had access to my location data for the past 2 years, nothing bad has happened to me yet, and they say it's necessary to continue fighting future outbreaks. Might as well keep giving them access".
,,the only way to do effective contact tracing while respecting individual privacy and agency''

The problem is that the government wants to achieve just the opposite. They see the current crisis as a way to extend their power over people, and intend to do that as much as they can get away with.
If I test positive, do I need to go straight to hospital as a precaution? I’d like something constructive to happen to happen to me (and by Golden Rule extension, anyone else who shows up as a carrier) while everyone else is running away in fear and revulsion.

What happens when I reach the front of the line at Disneyworld, enter the testing booth, and the big red light flashes? Will Disney Corporation have a record of my identity at this point as well?

It’s all very challenging. There are chilling warnings from history of both the havoc caused by mass viral illness, and also of discrimination and ostracizing based on fear.

Ideally I’d want the test to be anonymous, private, and administered by me. Like taking my temperature or feeling for swollen neck glands. Hopefully we’ll get to that point in my lifetime.
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In the library case does the cljs built library need a clojure runtime bundled? Or does banning eval and running it through Closure allow for only the bare minimum to be pulled through?
This may not seem like a big deal, but consider the effect that such an influential source of “correctness” can have on the general sense of what is correct.

Spell checkers like Word’s are responsible for the “z” in British English being demonised. Once upon a time, according to linguist Gretchen McCullen, it was common in British English to use both z and s. But somewhere along the line, automated spell checkers categorised one spelling as British and categorized the other as American, and it created a whole new hobby for many British people who fancied themselves the guardians of the English language, courageously pointing out whenever someone used the filthy, “dumbed down” version from across the Atlantic. We have these brave volunteers to thank for defending the purity of the famously consistent English language, and for these people we have spell checkers to thank.

Thanks a lot, spell checkers!
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CEOs' decision making has far more impact on the revenue of a company than a single engineer, or many engineers. That's why the market rate is very high for them.

If there were only a handful of qualified engineers available on the market, then they'd get paid CEO-like salaries due to the value they provide and being in high demand. But because there is a whole market of qualified engineers they get paid far less.

It's pretty basic economics and doesn't have much to do with stock buybacks/dividends/etc... Regardless of the value of an individual position, wages will be lower or higher depending on the supply of an occupation. In the big picture engineers are very replaceable at market price compared to executives so their wages are reflective of that.
Yea, sometimes when I get to rambling I can be a little bit overly opinionated/bold in some statements. Python tktinkter is also in a similar vein - what I am putting out is more of an aggregation of other's hard work (cross platform packaging?) more so than anything I've directly innovated.

However, even in the python sample, I couldn't find anything that was just "Download, Unzip, Modify" to start creating (all seem to have cumbersome install steps or hoops to jump through - I basically wanted something that was 0 configuration/installation, for fast iteration and development).
The C virus is as severe as a severe flu. It makes no sense to turn devices into surveillance devices a little bit / a lot / completely. Google and Apple will also lose trust if they do it.

Edit: The C virus is a deadly disease and the flu is a deadly disease. Google and Apple must be sure that it's useful to have this tracking in this situation. If it was not useful in this situation the 2 companies would lose trust. From [1], which is a good article again and again because it demands decisions based on data:

If we decide to jump off the cliff, we need some data to inform us about the rationale of such an action and the chances of landing somewhere safe.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...
Hah, yes. Thanks for the important correction!
It's not that hard. I remember using it to run Slack at one point, and while it wasn't easy it's definitely possible if you need it bad enough.
The cook trying to sell $3 burritos "out of an igloo chest" at a concert is a lot less favorable an example of the successful, entrepreneurial, optimal software engineer that he's compared against. The cook could also start a successful youtube channel and turn into the next cooking superstar -- and you could argue that, in ideal circumstances and optimal execution, their actions have just as much or more impact as the software engineer. But few know and can execute their optimnal path and thus their (our) reality is much more mundane.

(Also I don't know where you're from that burritos might be sold out of an igloo chest, that just sounds gross)
No problem! You also have a label repeated, which makes the first item to select the second radio-button:

<input type="radio" id="factor-weight-4" name="score" value="4">
<label for="factor-weight-3">super important</label>
<br>
<input type="radio" id="factor-weight-3" name="score" value="3">
<label for="factor-weight-3">pretty important</label>
If you don't implement affirmative action, you'll be accused of racism (due to the uneven final result of a blind GPA filter or equivalent).
I think colleges have been getting more competitive.
It doesn't have to be making money, it can just be saving it. The idea behind many of these protocols is that people with bursty traffic should be able to exchange bandwidth over time for peak heavy traffic during exceptional events.

Be that running an obscure website that gets flash traffic, or pushing out backups you hope you never need, until you need them all at once.

So the question is does your cloud provider end up charging you for your average traffic per year or your peak traffic, and that depends on base rates and overage rates. Even if protocols like this just exert downward pressure on those rate tables, we all win.
College applications season is ending and decisions are out. I don't know about going in undeclared, but choosing a different major is a risk that can backfire if your classes and ECs don't match up with it and admissions officers see through it, or if it's hard to change your major to CS or transfer into the school that has it.
OT but by "a single pizza order" do you mean 1 pizza or several in one order? Even good (i.e. not fast-food) pizzas cost maybe €10-12 around here, if it's for a single pizza $30 sounds like a lot of money to pay for it!
Argh! It’s not my fault, I was brainwashed as a child. I try to keep it down to just one space but I can’t help myself. I’m the victim here!
As Naval said, if the studies are wrong, they are all wrong in the same direction.

A good use of contact tracing would be to point Palantir at the social graphs on each "side" defending or attacking specific virus studies, looking for correlations with industry and other ties. Would be a fun project for social network analysts.
Programs that do typesetting for you (Markdown, LaTeX), will ignore the number of spaces after the period in your "source" code and lay it out in the output with a single space.

I've gotten in the habit of single-space in variable-width fonts, and double-space in fixed-width fonts.
People have strong opinions on either side of this issue. I grew up with two spaces so anything else doesn't look correct. I did however get past indented spacing on paragraphs pretty quickly and that's mostly gone away.

Thankfully book publishers still use them so they're not going away any time soon. Sure hope that Word has a way of toggling it off.
This is a really cool usage of it: https://github.com/borkdude/babashka, but last I had checked, it didn't have any GUI integration, and installing the GraalVM to begin with is a very heavyweight install.
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This is why I like to estimate on a more macro level. Define features loosely, with a few lines of text about what they are and how they relate directly to a business goal (how will it make money, make the product better etc), then as a dev, you should be aligning the work to that (which is a piece of cake because they're still flexible).

You should still have more granular planning, but it should serve the purpose of aiding the dev in completing the feature. You decide to do more granular planning when, as a dev, you look at a feature and go "The implementation is still ambiguous or I still have questions about how it relates to business goals".

Basically, invert the communication channels and shift responsibility to the devs. They have some loose business goals to hit, and the other staff provide support when they need it.

This solves so many problems I run into in enterprise dev. It kills Parkinson's Law (since the team members that are in the bottleneck are now responsible for the bulk of work generation within the team), it also gets rid of a whole class of poor decisions that are made without the proper context (since now you have a closer relationship between business goals and development).
Not only that but modifying the pkgbuild for yourself is trivial. Very convenient for installing patched kernels.
Even on typewriters double spaces has been an English thing. In German it has never existed. And I have never noticed that it would have been difficult in reading typewritten German text because one wouldn't see where the sentences end. But then some English speakers might joke that in German you note the end of the sentence by finally hitting the last verb.

French punctuation looks weird to me, because they do require a space before and after every punctuation mark that consists of two parts (question mark, exclamation mark, French double quotes (guillemets) etc). Haven't heard that they would have ever required 2 spaces in a row, though.
No idea about Spanish and other big languages.
There are two things that don't make sense to me about your original post.

One is that cash is not a resource. It's even less of a resource when it's not only not metal, but mostly not paper either.

The other is that the flu comparison doesn't make sense to me on multiple levels. Given deaths from COVID at the moment are nearly ten times flu on an annualized basis, given the partial shutdown, obviously they would be more than ten times without the shutdown...but what is even significant about exactly one order of magnitude?
> said location data is stored on a Microsoft Azure server that he rents and to which only he and one other person have the keys

Sorry, not good enough.

There are privacy-preserving cryptographic solutions to contract tracing. Anything less is unacceptable.
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Nope. Also, it shows a lack of understanding of costs that those who made the decision/are defending it only mention the amount of time - which is certainly a factor, but ignores mileage and the fact that as another comment mentioned, it’s likely an inefficient roundtrip in most cases…

And last but not least there’s the sneaky little reference to the fact that there’s legislation in play potentially to make the cap permanent. So even IF lack of traffic is enough to offset increased costs (when it’s almost certainly not) the truth is this is a political ploy to backdoor a manipulation of the market during a time of emergency, not an ACTUAL emergency order for the public good.

And shocking that the representative for that area is aghast at this response from UberEats and in support of the original decision… that’s their job!
You did a great job in that comment, though :)
This is great work. Loved reading that you got help from some of the Iris team.
Will look into mmap. Thx
There was nothing that said what exactly happens with the data.

Users also don’t know who you are. Why should I trust you?
Any language that has really impressed or surprised you?
Your narrow focus on PL may have scared off some schools. Some schools want to produce "well rounded students" who will seek a wide variety of classes. They want to shape a young student.
Wasn't that study mostly debunked? My understanding was that journalists took some inconclusive data and blew it out of proportion and it became a self-perpetuating meme, disconnected from the original source.
?? The N is missing. Not the S
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Great. former IRIS user. I hadn't heard Lowe's open sourced the code, good for them. After the IRIS shutdown announcement I switched to the Samsung Smartthings platform since it supports the second gen IRIS sensors along with a lot of other home automation products.

I use the system mostly for security and water leak monitoring.
Are restaurants downtown open for delivery with ~no office workers? I know people live downtown but not a lot. I would have guessed only the neighborhoods have enough takeout foot traffic to keep the doors open.
I came to say I know a couple of people that edit and format documents for a living and they hate getting documents with double spaces.
Because WhatsApp is not end to end encrypted. /s
Not EU, but here's a Montana story about excluding visitors. Could there be an "arm band lobbyist" somewhere in the story, both in Montana and the EU?

https://montanadailygazette.com/2020/04/14/montana-county-de...

> In what might be one of the most over-the-top and draconian responses to coronavirus yet seen in Montana, Valley County is mandating that people wear government-issued pink arm bands in under to purchase products inside of stores. The measure, enforced by the Valley County Health Department, insists that store-owners keep customers out unless they have the pink arm-bands, which denote the customer has been in the area more than 14 days and submitted to quarantine protocol.
Using coffee as an example, there's enormous diversity in how people make it and what (mostly unnecessary) resources they put in.
> Asians, particularly Asian men, have the most active obstacles that manifest on _basis of their race_ than any other minority group in the US

Sorry, but this is patently absurd. African-Americans have faced (and continue to face) an order of magnitude more difficulty and lack of opportunity than Asian-Americans. The statistics of a dating app or the number of Oscar winners are in no way comparable to centuries of slavery and legal discrimination.
Yes I've installed babashka. It really is a cool project.

Must look into GraalVM at some point, but, as someone new to Clojure, I'm wary of spending too much time on tooling yet. I've found in the past I can tinker so much with such things that it interferes with getting fluent with more fundamental stuff.

I'd be interested to see if either now or in the future Clojure + JavaFX in GraalVM would be feasible.

Edit: I don't quite get the install size issue - I thought native image was an entirely standalone executable?
> I don't want to run that garbage on my desktop

Please read the HN guidelines: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work". Link at the bottom-left.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956948
Same reason why clubs want to be exclusive and keep a long line of non-VIPs outside waiting to get in.
How much computation does it take to seal a 32GB sector? In terms of EC2 dollars for instance?
It's a setting in the grammar checker that has always been there. Just disable it again.
c) I made a mistake first time around.

In this post [1] we see you arguing that everyone makes mistakes, yet here you seem unable to recognize it as the obvious answer to your question. Perhaps not coincidentally, a failure to be semantically consistent is a common root cause of programming errors.

> So answer the rest of my questions - you could have, you didn't. Why not?

As a rule, I try to avoid responding to utter nonsense, though I must admit to breaking that rule in this thread.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22975241
Very timely.

Just tried to install 20.04 on LVM. It gets in to a completely broken state if you misconfigure the network due to an error in an exception handler in an Python error handling view in the UI. Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Time to give RS a new purpose in life.
And if you like Veep & Avenue 5 then check out In The Loop & The Thick of It - both by Armando Iannucci (Writer/Creator of them all)
It has been several weeks now since I read the article that I had in mind, but I have found this other article[0] on the use of wristbands to enforce quarantines, and towards the end it mentions the possibility of wristbands for contact tracing that I posted about above. It is easy to assume that if such tech exists, then governments will expect you to use it if you are one of those weirdos like us (or very elderly) who don't have an Apple or Android smartphone.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52409893
This isn't an argument.
It's at the bottom of the post.
Contract tracing works for the general population, obviously, if you are positive you stay home.
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I was a coder in the 80s and did XP in 1999 and became an early Scrum Master as a developer. Agile has been stolen from developers. The rise of Scrum came at the same time as the rise of the product manager, and the Scrum PO became a PM. From then on in many companies it was not about doing the right thing but getting the most features out of developers, to implement the PO vision, with little say. We became assembly line workers, put to comfort with high salaries.
Great. Now give Asian Americans affirmative action in the NBA.

Any mental gymnastics used to support affirmative action in business or schooling should also apply to sports. If I hear someone complaining about lack of representation of X in certain field I will gladly point at NBA and Asian Americans ask them out that.
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

- Responding to change over following a plan

Would any of these work for, say, building a house?

I hate agile from the bottom of my heart.
“As with any other poison, viruses are usually deadlier in larger amounts.”
The linked question on "why is C finite" is a good example. Each answer is basically just "the speed of light is finite because the field I know most about (cosmology, relativity, etc.) breaks in this specific way when it's infinite".

Having said that, I do believe the correct answer is some form of "we don't know". But that would be considered a half baked answer according to the author. It's also deeply unsatisfying on an emotional level.

So all the answers are basically modifying the intent of the asker in order to answer related questions which _are_ satisfying. This is compounded by the StackExchange community upvoting highly knowledgeable answers. Fortunately you can see the disputes on these answers also get upvotes in the answer's comments.
As with all letter spacing, the size is determined by the font metrics. There doesn't need to be a special character for it.
> However, there is a third solution that could be implemented this year: Ubiquitous daily screening.

And I want a pony. Wishing doesn't make it true.

The correct solution is to treat it like "just another flu" because we don't have a vaccine or adequate testing.
If the argument is that such an Asian University is not going to be elite enough, I think there are very simple ways around it.

For example, let's say the current and former CEOs of IBM, MS, Google, Adobe, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Marvel... got together, and created such a University and hired top Asian faculty from MIT, Stanford, Cal, Caltech.... with a small founding student body that is of above average calibre. I think that such a University would be elite enough.
I agree with you on all counts except I do want to point out that you're wrong about this one:

- Want your doctor to take your concerns seriously and prescribe the most appropriate medicine for your condition? Better to be Asian.

Being a biochemist I know that my dad was given a statin drug that should typically be at 1/4 strength for Asians. I came to later find out that I am homozygous for an allele which makes exercise more painful if you take that statin. Ironically my dad didn't die of heart disease (he never had high blood pressure) but died of diabetes and lack of exercise instead.

Anyways, the medical field is broken because by policy we want to treat everyone the same but in some ways biology skews racist.
Think Epic could do this in near real time with like a motion capture suit or something? That way the artist can interact with the audience more than just kinda dancing.
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Well let's not let them get away with it then :)

Right now, everyone in public health is 100% focused on solutions that can deliver results. If we can demonstrate effectiveness with a system that is privacy-first, it'll be all the more difficult to push a system that's collecting data just for the sake of it.
It's absurd to think the ACLU is 'totally cool' with forcing an entire nation to stay in their homes, or wear masks, but 'livid' about contract tracing.

I can understand why you might immediately think that because we are so concerned about 'privacy' these days, but just consider what is going on for a moment.

'Stay at home' -> OK
'You must wear a mask in public' -> OK
'Contact tracing' -> Controversy!

No, the fact we are in a la-la land existential crisis changes everything.

If universal contact-tracing is a viable solution to get things moving, then it's exceedingly rational to require it.

And without a vaccine, it's absolutely viable - we know this because it works in S. Korea.

Everyone gest the app, or something approximating it, testing should be relatively widespread and effectively focused on 'contacts' - and we can keep Covid at bay so long as we follow the rules and a bunch of other precautions are taken.

It's been demonstrated to work.