skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>operate in completely different theaters & under completely different rules than the military.

Killing people is really no different anywhere in the world. They're ok with their technology being used to kill, just so long as it's only people in certain place in the world and done by a certain group. What difference is it to me if I'm shot by a cop or a soldier? Either way I'm being shot by someone, likely far more well armed and armoured than myself, at the behest of the government. Who cares whether their uniform is blue or green?
I like this reply, but my instinct is to ask, would you not have found out the same thing by doing the implementation? This is the first time I hear about TLA+ and I don't know how difficult it is to work with. Was it easier than doing the thing? It does sound interesting though. But I assume that there is quite a curve to learning something like it.

And, my nitpicky self also says "but that's modeling! Surely, architecture and modelling is not the same thing!". But again, my lack of insight might lead me astray.

I do agree, a little bit of thought beforehand is very useful. Usually, I do this by doing a sketch on paper beforehand, if the mental map is not clear enough, maybe do some simple flow chart that describes the core functionality, just to make sure I understand it well enough.
> If they simply streamed the undecoded TV signals to their customers, they would have been fine. The Supreme Court decision constantly compared the Aereo service to previously litigated cases involving "antenna on top of hill really far from house as a service" (deemed to be legal).

Those cases were Fortnightly and Teleprompter and were overturned by Congress in 1976. If those cases were litigated again today the the CATV providers would have been shut down.
Great response. Thanks for going into that much detail.
sounds like contributing to open source
Their Gnome theme looks like it is from 2002.
Sorry, let me clarify: Given a particular company, how do you add engineering rigor and consensus? Because that was the proposal in contrast to splitting off a separate service.
I think we're together in this, my friend
I wrote https://trumped.com

You ideally want five hours of clean speech (good microphone, no background noise, high sample rate). It should be spoken clearly, in a single tone or mood. My model sounds awful because the data isn't consistent, and the room tone and microphones are terrible.

If you want different prosody or moods, don't mix them in the same data set.

You can experiment with transfer learning LJSpeech with Nvidia Tacotron2 right now. Glow-tts is also promising.

You'll start to get results with fifteen minutes of sample data, but for high quality you want a lot of audio.

Have your wife read a book and record it. The training chunks will be ~10 seconds apiece, so keep that in mind for how to segment the audio.

Focus on getting lots of good sounding data. Hours. The models will improve, but this may be your only shot of acquiring the data.

Download the LJSpeech dataset and listen to it. See how it sounds, how it's separated. That is a fantastic dataset that has yielded tremendous results, and you can use it for inspiration.
Same for me. I got my current job because of a recruiter on LinkedIn (where my previous applications to the company got no follow up). They also make it easy for me to interview at hedge funds because they spam me a lot about that, which I don’t mind except for when they somehow call me. I don’t even particularly care if these are semi-automated because when I follow up it results in genuinely getting added to the interview pipeline

It’s already delivered a lot of value to me. I know they use lots of creepy/dark patterns and there are a lot of things I don’t like, like the news feed or teasing features behind paywalls. But it’s still worth it IMO. I have got tens (maybe hundreds?) of thousands of dollars of value out of it without paying a cent, just filtering through some spam
>When you say you're bad at something, people tell you that you're not, or treat it as weakness.

As a Brit who has worked with Americans I think this is very cultural. From my judgement of my interactions if I say "I know nothing about this but..." there's probably a 50% chance I know more about the thing than you. If I say "Have you considered..." that means you're talking about my area of expertise. That's not been my experience of how Americans approach things -often from a perspective of trying to prove themselves. From a social point of view I've always found it more useful to under-estimate my own abilities than to ever-estimate. There's good reason too, if you claim authority and are wrong then you burn a lot of credibility.

Having said this, I also subscribe to the idea that criticising other people primarily makes you look bad no matter the truth of the matter and that sounds a lot like what the people the author describes is doing.
I tried. It was ignored.
It would be easy for them to put a clause in their contracts with third parties that forbids them from reselling it to the police.

Not necessarily saying Microsoft will do that, but they could do it if they're committed to this.
Shouldn't any public facing website have a rate limit? If someone attempts to circumvent simple rate limits (randomizing the source IP or header content), then that could demonstrate intent to cause damage, and you'd have a better case. But if you don't set a limit, how can you be mad that someone exceeded it?

(I know they're ignoring robots.txt, but robots.txt is not a law. And, it doesn't apply to user-generated requests, for things like "link unfurling" in things like Slack. I am guessing the crawler ignores robots.txt because it is doing the request on behalf of a human user, not to create some sort of index. Google is attempting to standardize this widely-understood convention: https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_txt)
King Jan Sobieski of Poland and “The Lord of the Rings” (2016)
Nice list. Just an update... `Thinking in Erlang` no longer exists
I'm guessing there is more money in military contracts than police contracts, and being cognizant of police abuse is currently in the popular zeitgeist while military abuse is not.
I wish the article had some numbers on Pepsi's income and expected profit in that timeframe. It would really put that 8 mil offer in context. I also think a key point here is the deal Pepsi made with that local market: you buy a lot of Pepsi, and we give you winnings.

If they made 100 mils profit due to this campaign I think it's a different situation, ethically, from if they made around 2 mil profit (the amount of the original prize).
> HTTP 429 -> ignored

It's in the article
I disagree. There is no such thing as a "lean" site that is as popular as Wikipedia (top 5-10 US depending on the day). I believe they are likely the leanest website in the Alexa top 30. The only site that I see that is leaner in the top rankings is Craigslist, currently at #38 in America, and Craigslist is a famously, fantastically, uniquely lean site (in some people's opinions, even to a fault).

Hosting costs for Wikipedia are "only" $2.3m, but imagine the legal expense they have, fighting likely millions of takedown requests, malicious lawsuits, complying with local laws and regulations in China, Russia, etc, paying a team of top software engineers to handle running a top-visited site (that by the way, has almost no downtime), a security threat model that includes nation-state actors, and the responsibility that if they fail (by being hacked, or sued, or DDOSd, or whatever), they will have let humanity's library be harmed.

I just can't understand how any casual bystander can complain about Wikipedia or their funding/organizational model. If you don't like it, just don't donate money.
That was also my first thought, having seen far too many tech geeks inflict unwanted products and projects onto their poor partners and families.

The sentiment is admirable, but it's a lot of work considering that the probability of a negative outcome is very low.
Good point. Did not find a synonym.
In the United States, a right to privacy has not ever been used by courts to restrict photography of people in public places. Not even once.
I’m almost more curious to see where this discussion goes.

30 seconds of googling, might be relevant?
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN0UV0XS
Intent is the sticking point for the vast majority of prosecutions. That's why you have a jury, not Compute-o-Bot 9000.
Taking negligent actions that lead to the death of another person is often a crime of manslaugter. Manslaughter usually doesn't require any other crime to be committed. Therefore, "no laws were broken" ... "leading up to the death of Tayor" isn't relevant to at least some of the relevant charges.

In Kentucky, KRS 507.040 defines "Manslaughter in the second degree" (https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id...).

This is defined as:

> A person is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree when he wantonly causes the death of another person...

A "wanton" state of mind in KY is defined in KRS 501.020 (https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id...

> A person acts wantonly with respect to a result or to a circumstance
described by a statute defining an offense when he is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. The risk must be of such nature and degree that disregard thereof constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the situation. A person who creates such a risk but is unaware thereof solely by reason of voluntary intoxication also acts wantonly with respect thereto.

Now, this quickly gets fact specific, but if the following acts are true:

- LMPD breached the house suddenly, and loudly

- LMPD breached the house late at night

- LMPD officers were wearing plain-clothes

- LMPD officers did not announce themselves (disputed)

I personally would find that the officers acted wantonly in a manner that would predictably created a serious risk of injury or death to themselves or bystanders. As such, given the statute and those 4 facts I would be willing to vote to convince on second-degree manslaughter in this case.

I'll note, again, that this is fact specific. The officers specifically claim to have loudly announced themselves. Walker and neighbors dispute that fact.
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Ah, that's the word I've been trying to recall while reading the article.

Lots of big words, with nothing specific, nothing actionable. Vague as it can be.

Doesn't help that the phrase "free energy" drives most people with any expertise either mad or catatonic. Conspiracy theorist have ruined it.
> I haven’t seen any concrete numbers.

Within the movement, there are different groups with different policy proposals (which, even in the “defund” camp, are not limited to just moving money around), which inherently must vary in detail for specific police departments.

But mostly the point right now is to get the people who legislate at the local level to agree that the broad principal is worthy of detailed discussion. And most advocates anywhere on the defund/dismantle spectrum will tell you that they are calling for a broad rethinking around a particular outline involving a variety of community and government groups, not selling a detailed package of ready-to-implement policies.
The visualization alone is helping with compartmentalizing negative feedback. That's a unique way to find insight by having sheer concentration of negative feedback.
So my post was downvoted and flagged. And without any reply, ok, here's why I said you'd swallowed the bullshit.

> the simple fact of calling this art was a profound statement,

A statement of what? Why is it profound?

> one worth considering within its context.

Why is it worth considering? Why is it worth doing so within its context? Its context is its siting within an art gallery, so does the re-siting it into an art gallery de-facto make it art? If so that's a pathetically shallow achievement.

> Maybe this piece of art had so much to teach me about perspective, context and expression

What effing perspective? What context particularly? What expression - what does 'expression' even mean here?

This trademark nebulousity characterises self indulgent bullshit that props up 'art' and the people who 'consume'[0] art.

(not knocking art, far from it, but lack of rigorous thinking is dangerous. Think for yourself, don't let others do it for you).

[0] Damn, I hate that word.
Some writers become comedians and are famous for their one-liners.
If your works are displayed in a museum, you're not a struggling amateur. You're supposed to have some kind of ability and that ability shouldn't have to be defended by pointless platitudes.

The criteria for what goes on display in a museum is not ability but significance. If someone is does the first version of style X, if style X is significant, then that someone's art rates museum display even if their version is a bit amateurish.

The significance of blank canvas in particular is detail I wouldn't otherwise comment on, however.
Again, this is an argument I’m fairly uncomfortable making but logically it is not hard to distinguish between an invading foreign army and it’s soldiery vs a bank robber.

They demand different kinds of violence.

The issue is that modern policing and invasion are not that black and white.
You're right, but for some reason the whole SEO thing just winds me up. It's my opinion that 'good' SEO makes sites worse for actual people to use.
Hi everyone,

My wife and I purchased our first home almost two years ago, and I got tired of managing home projects, contractor contact info, and appliance details via spreadsheets and notes. I eventually decided to build a site to manage all of this for us.

Right now you can:
* Manage projects and tasks around the house
* Store contact info for plumbers, electricians, landscapers, real estate agents, etc.
* Store Brand, model number, warranty info, and more for all your appliances.
* Store information about your paint colors so you have everything you need to buy more paint. No more trying to match colors

My next plans for new features are:
* Add manuals, photos, PDFs, etc on projects
* Text message or email notifications for recurring tasks
* Add deadlines for projects
* Store electrical circuit diagram
* Lawn/garden section to store info on grass, plant care instructions, and garden details

I'd love to hear more about what you think!
There are snobs in every hobby. Don't let it get you down. I've been "woodworking" for 3 years now and I'm still holding my projects together with bubble gum and paper clips. But I've built a handful of things that get used.
Ask me anything. That specific website is a personal project of mine which I'd like not to disclose.

As you can see from my blog I'm not selling anything, I don't even have a banner on my blog, so where your suspect is coming from?
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> And then they’ll probably ask you to pay the bill

Can anyone comment on whether there would be any legal basis for this?
Can you please point me to the comment in this thread that implies that "all incidents that involve different races can be blamed on racism?" Or are you just interjecting with a non-sequitur for no reason?
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Hey, this guy sounds like the Freeman's Mind guy...

> goes into channel

Hey, this is the Freeman's Mind guy!
Already being done on an industrial scale, though this is further progress.
Hi Napolux,

It looks like your site is using a theme based on my website (https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/, source at https://github.com/ruuda/blog). That is fine — it is open source after all, licensed under the GPLv3. But I can’t find the source code for your site, and I can’t find any prominent notices saying that you modified my source. Could you please add those?
Great. Will you consider adding an API for the JSON export as well?
Master and default have different meaning. Master in git mean master record for other branches. In mercurial default is more applicable because common workflow is not branch based but change set.
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> I could have done that, but I didn't - because I'm not sufficiently full of shit.

I think you're missing the point though.

The whole significance of that exhibition is that esteemed artists are given a grand platform (with a long history) to express any idea they want and this (the 3 blank canvases) is the one they chose. That in and of itself is the art.

They had no obligation to display those 3 blank canvases. In fact, they could have just as easily whipped up something that was technically impressive with the finest strokes and details (presumably if you're at the level of getting museum exhibits, this is just a base level of skill you've acquired and is trivial to display).

But the very fact that the artist used the platform to express the idea that the canvas itself is the art and the entire point is beautiful. They placed an emphasis on the very beginning rather than the end of the creative process.

In some ways, the exercise is totally pointless, cliche, and lazy. I agree. But there is also immense beauty in the same exercise because somewhere along that very seam lies the answer to the question "What is the meaning of anything at all? What's the point of this museum?".

If that pointless piece with 3 blank canvases led to you and I to having this conversation here, then I think in that artist's eyes "mission accomplished".
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Yes, of course, it's always "to me". I don't wish to stop other people from liking it, or set fire to the museum that displays it. I wish we didn't have to be this careful about language.

Note I will, however, make a mental judgment of someone who finds "Fountain" very moving or noteworthy. Again, this is my personal judgment and I think I'm entitled to it.

edit:

> "It's not for me right now"

This has definitely happened to me, but with books and movies.
A ranking of used voices would be fascinating. Especially broken down by user statistics.
Various research institutions have internal rules concerning ethics of experimentation on humans (e.g. process of institutional review boards), and various research grants have stipulations that research funded by those grants must follow such ethics rules, and various research publication venues have rules that they will only publish research that followed the rules.

That being said, that's essentially a "voluntary initiative" by these organizations implemented because they choose to follow these ethics guidelines. These ethics rules aren't universal or legally mandated for everyone so if a private company wants to do some unethical research with its own funds, if they don't want to publish the research but just use and sell it, then that company is not legally required or forced to follow any ethical restrictions. Within the limits of law, they can be as unethical as their owners are.

The solution to lack of ethics is legal restrictions and enforcement of them. A few USA states have limitations on facial recognition. In EU, GDPR would apply for a situation like this.
So this tool is mostly a way to store your dataset?

Eg. doing things like force alignment should be done in other tools and use the api to put in the dataset?
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Exactly. I'm in a completely different field than the demographic of HN users; however, easy apply does give me the ability to apply to a bunch of random positions at various tiers. Now I've never had an offer from LinkedIn and a handful of interviews out of the 500+ applications but it does give me the the ability to apply quickly. For cool companies I find that have jobs I am not qualified for I just book mark them into my companies bookmark and periodically check or reach out to a recruiter.
Space-based measurement of the neutron lifetime
I guess YMMV; I couldn't make it work. VNC on the other hand is terribly slow.

The only solution that worked for me, both configuration and performance wise, is sadly closed source - NX Server (which is excellent).
Seems like a great application for Elon's Neuralink.
I mostly read it as a reference to Pulp Fiction (which I think was the intent) and that doesn't make it much better.
Totally a tangent, but: the law of the excluded middle ("tertium non datur") doesn't state that "a and not a" is always invalid, it states that "a or not a" is always valid. This is a somewhat important distinction since there are logic systems (intuitionism) where "a or not a" is not a tautology, yet I don't know of any logic that accepts "a and not a".
I really agree with you here, except for your inclusion of looters in that group. You're goddamn right opportunistic looters are nothing like me. Those fuckers care nothing about the fight of the protests, and are willing to tarnish the whole movement for some free shit. Fuck them.

Otherwise, right on. I can't tell you how often I come to dead ends in arguments regarding poverty and crime, where folks who've never been poor or desperate give themselves 100% of the credit for their good fortune. Like they picked their fucking parents before birth.
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> What kind of research is OpenAI doing that all the other big AI players (Google/DeepMind, FB, Microsoft) aren't also invested in? And even if others are doing the same, what part of OpenAI's research do you consider unethical?

I believe all of them are doing unethical research, especially facial recognition. Notice the public backpedaling this week from all the big tech companies on this too. By directing their cash through OpenAI they can avoid whatever fallout comes from unleashing things like GPT3 on the world.

The most straightforward use case for GPT3 is generating fake but believable text. AKA spam. That's what it was designed to do. If you think fake news is a problem now, wait till someone is generating a dozen fake but believable news articles per minute by seeding GPT3 with a few words and hitting a button.

Its a conspiracy theory with some circumstantial evidence. We will probably never know either way, because who would admit to it if it was true.
Good to hear. I was looking into this for my young nephew who lives there. I was very surprised to find they offered no way for him to get a card.
Put another way:

Hey <programmer>, I just bought a new laptop. Which IDE should I install on it first?
I can just write the same thing on a piece of paper at home.