skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been able to produce that kind of speech before though. I wrote programs using Markov Chains 10 years ago which could produce almost real sounding speech but I didn't think it was intelligent.

The GPT models are essentially massive databases along with the use of probability models for how words are connected. Do you think that means intelligence? Can it generate new knowledge of things outside its database? Can it generate novel theories for things outside its understanding?

The GPT models often generate streams of text which can found word for word in its database, i.e. it's not really generating anything new as just mimicking. When a parrot repeats a human, it doesn't understand what the words mean, it's just making sounds.
It doesn't need to be "a DAW", it just needs to be "the parts of a DAW that lets you make the sheet music sound good". If they pull that off, which to date literally no one has, then I couldn't care less if it wasn't suitable for general music production without the sheet music side in the slightest. Need to be try to be FL Studio, or Ableton, or Logic Pro, or Cubase, or Avid Pro, or Studio One, or Reaper, or... Do what they don't, because they're not going to.

If MuseScore will let me use Spitfire's BBC Symphony Orchestra and gives me DAW-style control over how my sheet music renders to audio with the finesse that score alone doesn't allow for, then that would be something we've never been able to do, and it's about time someone did it.
> You've identified a difference in motive between recreational gambling and insurance, not a mechanical difference.

I see also this one as needlessly reductionist. By that logic also taking a day off from work to interview for a new job is gambling.

The difference I gave are also more than just motive. With insurances you are supposed to desire the risky activity (owning an house, booking a trip, driving) independently from the payout, and moreover the transition to insurance in meant to decrease the variation in outcomes. Two characteristic entirely adverse to the nature of gambling.

In a Russian Roulette analogy, gambling is betting money on who wins pushing people to play more and more as the payout increases hoping to leave a winner; insurance is more complex, it is taking an already running game that you had already chosen to play for your own reason with no money involved and introducing a fee that will payout to the loser's family. You are not supposed to want to "win" that bet, actually it is part of the insurer job to make sure of that.

It is still in the category of "financial probabilistic interaction" which is just one of various requirements for gambling.
I am completely in support of the idea that these videos show unnecessary police brutality, I have no argument with the message here.

I just want to answer your question about shooting to kill vs incapacitate.

The first part of the answer is that nobody should shoot anyone who they don’t reasonably believe is trying to kill them. This applies to citizens or police. Generally it is the standard applied in citizen self-defense scenarios.

The second part is that shooting isn’t that easy or effective. Certainly not how it appears in the movies. It is hard to hit a 6” moving target in a stressful situation, even at relatively close range, and would require training and practice that simply isn’t available to cops. Added to this, there is no reliable place to shoot someone that will incapacitate them without also being likely to kill them. Surprisingly many people will continue to fight after being shot, so even if the cop had the ability to ‘shoot them in the leg’, for example, they would still be at risk of being killed by an aggressive adversary.

In addition, any responsible use of firearms has to take into account the environment. Handgun bullets are still lethal hundreds of meters from where they are fired. When cops miss their targets, bullets can and do kill bystanders, or ricochet or fragment and cause injury to people not even in the line of fire.

So the guidance to anyone using a gun in self defense is generally to shoot for the ‘center of mass’. This is primary because hitting the central nervous system or vital organs is the only reliable way to stop someone, but also because it’s impractical and unsafe to aim anywhere else.

None of this is meant to justify police shootings. Quite the opposite. I am just explaining why every gun use is necessarily a lethal encounter.

If a politician suggests “shooting them in the leg”, the one thing you can be certain of is that they are completely incompetent on this topic, and can not be trusted to improve matters.
People of color of HN: is this something you care about, or is this just white people virtue signalling? I'm not trying to start a debate here, I'm genuinely asking because I don't know the answer.
Hard to be completely sure without RH or the family specifying, but browsing r/WSB’s thread on the incident, looks like a lot of people have encountered this exact same issue and had it clear up the next day
Didn't realize that. I could see how it's harder to go by feel without the gap around them. Adding some texture to them could mitigate that.
This is factually incorrect, and the linked study [1] does not make this claim. In the study, the quoted 2017 level of CO2-equivalent emissions by the top 13 dairy firms is 337 MT. During the same year 2017, the UK emitted 464 MT CO2-e [2], which is about 38% more.

Now, if you want to compare these top 13 firms and see which country they exceed, you can sort all the countries and go down the list until you find one that emits less than the 337 MT. [3] is just such a list. You find that these firms emit just slightly less than Spain (340 MT) but much more than the Netherlands (193 MT).

[1]https://www.iatp.org/milking-planet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_the_United_Kingdom

[3]https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=AIR_GHG
ye olde bait'n'switch
Ok he should have said "many" or "most" : does it change the underlying face behind his statement ?

I don't have any statistics, but it seems obvious the group of women desiring diamonds is bigger (to say the least) than the group of women not interested by them.

Without generalization there can be no reasoning, because you can always find outliers that disprove any claim.
Can you elaborate on which of those clips you find that the police initiated or acted inappropriately?

The first one is what we should want to happen — a misplaced knee was moved by a colleague. There’s no context to decide if police inappropriately started an altercation. There’s no extended period of a knee on someone’s neck.

The second is police responding to someone on the ground fighting them and physically resisting arrest.

The third is pepper spraying a crowd that was refusing to move and let the police form a line, after someone lunged at the police.

The fourth is completely context free, and while unfortunate that a child was there, it doesn’t give us context to judge.

Your source also is using selective clips, that remove context to focus on emotionally triggering scenes.
Not sure why, but unfortunately using that list in uBlock Origin (latest Firefox 77) does not produce the same result as using the "I don't care about cookies" extension;

Example website for which blocking the cookie popup does not work with uBlock Origin: https://tweakers.net/
Yes, if their plan was to keep both platforms forever it wouldn't make much sense. But if they have a 2-3 year transition plan, it might make more sense to start with something for which low sales is still a success.
The point is that 10k steps and 8 glasses of water a day are goals completely made up with no evidence based in reality. they lead people to waste time.
> There is literally no evidence that humans need any "goal" when it comes to drinking water, just drink when you're thirsty.

Actually... there is. You should stay below 1lt/hour on average because that's about the limit your kidneys can handle.
> I wasn't talking about money laundering at all.

All that stuff about clean coins, joins and mixers. Money laundering.

> The bulk of bitcoin users are HODLers

Who are doing so because they expect the price in fiat to go up, so regulating on/off ramps would likely kill that.
I never thought adding colors to emojis were useful. They just added race to it.
From the article:

> “For example, microprocessor degradation may lead to lower performance, necessitating a slowdown, but not necessary failures
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A simple and easy number that is not too wrong is better than an exact number that requires more effort to understand.

Statistically, 10K is a pretty good baseline.

Of course, people have unique physiques, but then again, health advice targeting large populations cannot be individualistic.

Pick a number. If it's not too wrong, stick with it until more evidence surfaces.
Police unions have considerable influence to block reform even when the elected politicians support it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/police-unions-minneapo...

The efforts to "defund police" would solve some of the same problems that police currently address through other means. This would weaken the influence of police unions. For example, spending more to treat drug addiction as a disease rather than paying police to address possession as a crime.
I see you are ignoring the low cost Surface computers that are meant to compete on price with the $329 10.2 inch iPad or even the $499 iPad Air.

The iPads can actually run well with 2GB of RAM. Microsoft Office is a much better experience on an iPad without a keyboard than any hardware that Apple sells.
I think the point is that the specific number, 10000, was based on advertisement for the pedometer rather than actual health advice.
I've noticed that I drink a ton more water when I have my water bottle on my desk---I rarely get up to go get myself a drink (because I'm deep in whatever work I'm doing), so I would wait too long without the water bottle. The convenience factor certainly plays a role in determining what the "thirstiness threshold" is.
Easy goals so people don't have to think. 5 a day. 10,000 steps. 2 metres.

Is anyone surprised?
Unfortunately the IA showed that their leadership jeopardize their stated goal. Flagrantly disregarding copyright law, however noble the stated reason may be, showed an extreme lack of prudence. Making rash choices like that are exactly the wrong sort of temperament you need for a long term archive. I would love to see their mission continue, and would happily continue to support it, but I have a hard time supporting the current people who are executing it.

Losing the IA would be a big loss for humanity, but the blame for that rests squarely with the IA leadership. Hopefully a more stable group is able to continue the efforts somehow.
The trouble is so many people have no idea what it means to be thirsty or hungry. Or they don't think they could be bothered to drink plain water, and instead only drink sugar all day.

"Drink water" is a radical idea for a lot of people.
Unicode supports 150+ scripts which can be used to write thousands of languages. No matter how good your Unicode support, there is probably some obscure script for which you do the wrong thing. But, in the real world, most software (whether proprietary or open source) supports a limited set of languages, and you test it works correctly for all of them, and every now and again you might add support for a new language (due to business requirements, or, in the case of open source, because someone volunteers to do it)-at which point any issues specific to that language and its script are found and fixed.
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The team I work in is rather diverse, (not just black/white). This never crosses anyone's mind here.

It also reeks far more of virtue signalling than it does of actually taking action against racism or racial bias. This screams loudly "Look at all we're doing to stop 'racism'" without actually addressing the real harmful racist issues that exist. (Slavery wasn't just against black people, though it's the most recent or well known form of slavery. It sadly also still exists)

Like people of minorities being paid less or people of minorities havin to go to significantly more interviews. This isn't limited to black people, this is for anyone who has a non-white sounding name. (at least in Western civilisation).

I don't really care if they do change it personally, but I'd much prefer actual action against racial bias.
> Software development has a troubling history of being an overwhelmingly straight, white, male space...

Software engineering is incredibly diverse. There are many East Asians, South Asians, Middle Easterners, and people from underprivileged backgrounds from former Soviet block countries. It also has a relatively high percentage of just unique folks.

Software engineering also has a diversity problem with respect to female, Latino, and black engineers in particular.

I'm just pointing out that "overwhelmingly white" is quite inaccurate.
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Note that isn't part of the rules. It's part of the "Winning submission documentation requirements" which is a separate document and wasn't mentioned at all on the "external data" Kaggle thread, which had Kaggle moderators explaining the rules.

Documentation requirements are pretty standard in Kaggle competitions, and usually cover having to supply your code, and maybe write a blog post about it. I've never seen one that had major rules in it.
We don't destroy nations by leaving them (which we haven't done in Syria's case; there are still USA troops fighting there [0]), we destroy them by occupying and slaughtering in the first place. Keep in mind that the "gas attacks" were staged false-flag this-is-how-all-our-wars-start bullshit, which overruled-from-top OPCW investigations made clear. [1] Calling oneself "extremely anti-war" while parroting military-industrial complex submarine interventionist propaganda is fairly ridiculous. Killing more children in Syria wouldn't have saved the lives of Syrian children.

[0] https://thegrayzone.com/2019/11/07/max-blumenthal-on-baghdad...

[1] https://thegrayzone.com/2020/04/28/opcw-insiders-ltamenah-ch...
That sounds like insurance fraud. At least if that person declared known broken appliances as working I am almost sure it is insurance fraud.
I can't help but suspect worrying about all these goals probably undoes all the good of achieving them.
You seem to be saying disgusting restaurant malpractice is fine, as is police brutality, as long as we don’t look at it.
> you want power local and limited, not consolidated and far away. that would only make things like use of force worse.

Maybe in your country but in many, many places in the world this is demonstrably not the case.
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I've used MuseScore on and off, mostly because it's UI frustrates me and gets in the way. It's powerful, but it needs a way to make simple notation easy. If they're truly going to make it better for casual users, I'm all for it.
Ask HN: Git Branching for Continuous Delivery
Hi HN,

At my company, we have small teams up to 4 people. Each team is responsible for its own product and libraries.

Libraries are shared using NuGet packages, created every merge and successful build.
These changes are propagated recursively to every project by an automatic commit.

Let's assume we have 3 projects, A_Product, B_Library and C_SubLibrary:

- C is changed, revision number increases, new NuGet package is created, it triggers an update of B

- B has its NuGet packages updated, B is built, revision number bumped, new NuGet package for B, A is triggered

- A is updated, A is built, revision number++, installer is created

My biggest issue with this is how difficulty it is to maintain different versions of the product and libraries at the same time and the flood of automatic commits.

On my workflow, I have branches with CI/CD per repository, one for each maintained version of product and libraries.
If I'm developing a feature, I create new branches without CI/CD for the product and for each library that will change. I also update the Git submodules to the new branches.
I then change all NuGet references to Project references. Now I can start working on the needed changes of my code.
If I need something new on another team's library, I have to wait for their NuGet package and manually update it on my projects.
When all changes are done I must merge them in order of dependency between libraries, so the packages are correctly propagated, or else something will break. I also cannot merge any of the Project references or manually-updated NuGet packages, as these will break the CI/CD.

This is cumbersome and very time-consuming. I have done this multiple times and I still make mistakes and have to redo part of the process.

Each team has its own way of working with this CI/CD setup, but none of them feels "right".

TL;DR: Can you provide any insights on how to work with Continuous Delivery and some sort of Package Management involved?
people who are actually experts in kidneys and how the body manages water disagree with you. they say thirst is a fine way to go with exceptions being very rare and mostly among the elderly, but that even there 8 glasses of water a day is way more than is necessary. as well the idea that coffee/milk/juice don’t count is also untrue.
Besides, the options are not restricted to "a machine decides everything" and "a human decides everything".

We can use machines to guide the humans, finding flaws or biases, recommending further analysis, and in a lot of other ways while still keeping the decisions made by humans.
Insurance is done to reduce risk, gambling to increase risk.

Betting on sports is insurance if and only if you bet against your own team for an amount not greater than the winnings.
I guess you mean Turbo Pascal 7. :)
The issue is that some of their customers have pinned DigiCert so they have two choices:

* pay whatever DigiCert demands for a new certificate
* accept that some of their customers will break

Doing this two weeks before the old certificate expires puts them in a difficult situation for negotiating, especially now they've committed to getting a new DigiCert certificate.
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Ironically, the same can be said about your comment.
It does seem weird.

Maybe in Canada the vacation pay needs to be put aside in an account as time off is accrued? If this was the case they might be being paid out of cash that is on-hand and reserved for vacation payments. The company would be getting five days of work out of an employee, paying them five days, but 20% of that money might be coming out of cash already stocked for paying vacation time out.
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Ya. I'm embarrassed by my hoarding behavior. Took me a decade to let go of my CDs, even though I had stopped listening to them much earlier. I've only managed to cull ~1/2 of my physical books.

My mitigation strategy for ebooks is quickly adding to my bookmark's "Books" folder and close the tab.
It’s not only outputs/labels that provide “insights”.

Knowing how the outputs relate to the inputs is where most new insights could come from.

For example, what feature (input) is driving the “failure” of the machine (output/prediction)?

This is where ML explainability comes in.
That's not how it works. The state of the police force isn't assessed by watching selected videos.
I presume you meant "investigated" not "indicted".
> they lead people to waste time.

If drinking and moving are the worst forms of time wasting in someone's life, they're doing pretty damn well.
I ordered a refurbished one from a specialist shop in my country for christmas, they go for €80 here including adapter, AV cables and SCART converter, delivered neat, clean, well packaged, and working just fine. I see similar prices on ebay. According to Wikipedia, a total of about 33 million have been sold worldwide - still ranking "only" #17 in the list of most sold consoles, but still a respectable amount. That said, if you're interested in getting an N64 at some point but don't yet want to play it or whatever, get a good refurbished one now, they will only go up in price.
but is it doing you any good? are just drinking more often but smaller amounts? is it just nice to drink but not useful?
Does this support touch/stylus drawing?
They're explicit that this data should be shared. Obviously aiming for it to not be a part of unique contribution of the contender. They may not provide a tight enough statement about that, but it is fairly clear.
This is probably the most intelligent piece of software ever written. We've reached the pinnacle of development. Shut your computers down, everyone.
its a really low bar to celebrate wrong ideas that lead to time wasted in less bad ways.
>> "Society" has no ability to seize bitcoin or censor its transactions.

Chinese society likely could censor, given the prevalence of mining in that country and their government's love of interference.

And various governments can and have seized bitcoin. This is a fairy tale.
This is patently false. I talk to non-tech "regular" users all the time that don’t know what I’m talking about when I mention AMP and its issues.
So are you saying that they are only good at sales? Out of curiosity where do you normally obtain the raw sensor data?
Then they shouldn't have a gun at all
Thanks for your analysis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
Americans certainly know more than western/northern Europe about shooting people, but police here is trained to shoot to incapacitate, and it generally seems to work, as the fatality rate of police shootings is only about half as high as in the US.
This is a straw man argument.

If you watched 100 videos of kitchen malpractice within restaurants in which:

- The acts of malpractice had broadly consistent characteristics

- The restaurants in question were all owned under the same organizational umbrella

- That organizational umbrella had the authority and exclusive control of the US government

And then drew the conclusion that maybe there were systemic problems that lead to these remarkably consistent issues, you'd be completely rational.

As for your other comparison between this and "the media" curating street interviews, I don't see the parallels at all.

A news outlet using a random interview with a person on the street as evidence that people are "divided over climate change" is clearly manipulative. In this case, a person is saying "Police are routinely using military equipment and force tactics against US citizens in disturbing ways. Here are 700 videos of it as evidence."
Exactly. If Intel's 3ghz cpu eats 262W and emits 895 BTU/h, and Apple's passively cooled ARM laptop chip eats 130W and 450 BTU/h (completely made up numbers), how fast would Apple's ARM chip run with active cooling and 250W?
GitHub is not Git.

If the Git cli tool still initializes a new repo to 'master', I'm not going to go out of my way to rename it before I push to GitHub.

I haven't seen any discussion around changing the Git cli tool.
I guess this would've been perfectly legal had she not used fake ids? Just like the stock market...
Aside from that, it also hampers authors creatively. The difference between a great film and bad film can hinge on what happens in the editing room. It has to be the same for books.

Consider how hard it would be for a programmer to do their job if they could only write programs concatenatively (e.g. if the code you committed last week were a real commitment—set in stone and you were never able to refactor it or clean up the architecture, etc.)
My take on this is that it's difficult to communicate the exact details of “Unicode support”, so perhaps it's alright to say that one supports Unicode, generally speaking, but Unicode is complicated and there are corners that aren't supported fully.