skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you really want to help the Uyghurs, offer them passports, or refugee status, instead of using them as an excuse to start another cold war. They'd appreciate it more, it would be cheaper, and it would be far less likely to escalate into a shooting war.

But given how Syria went, we know that given the option between bombing a place for some geopolitical aim, or taking Muslim refugees, the US would take the first option every time it presents itself.

That's because nine times out of ten, the humanitarian plight is the excuse for war, not the end to itself.
It does? Damn, that's enough to make me switch from Vanced, thanks!
> are you using Tacoton2 for the voice generation?

Nope. glowtts. Tacotron2 has higher fidelity (it's a denser network), but it's really slow and expensive to run.

> are you using a base model before you train up new speakers

Absolutely! Transfer learning is essential to training on sparse or limited data, and it's incredibly effective.

> How long do you run the training for normally

> and what hardware are you running?

I think I explained this in my other answer? But if not, it's typically awhile. The best guiding light though is to frequently listen to the inference results. Are they improving? Watch the Tensorboard graphs to see what loss and attention look like and make sure you're actually learning.

> By the way, your Trumped.com is throwing some errors in the console so the site isn't working for me.

Oh no. I realize there are some bugs I left for iPhone (simply because I don't have one), and I really need to get those fixed. I'm not sure if this is your case or not. Perhaps the pods with the Trump model are also experiencing duress -- I'll need to investigate that too. I have yet to hook up monitoring (yikes).
Sounds so weird. Anything short of a full mask, seems like there would be a high chance Saleh would recognize an assistant. This is someone you work with closely on a regular basis. Height, build, hair, skin complexion would still be visible under a half mask.

On the flip side, I'd be nervous as hell about being recognized if I was the assistant.
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Jerry Seinfeld
This article links to a few supporting studies: https://drbrighten.com/can-birth-control-affect-who-youre-at...
Outlook Woes: I have no email and I must scream
I am convinced the supposed hackers, as identified by krebsonsecurity, are patsies. The purpose of the attack was to undermine confidence in Twitter as a platform, which is why the attack was intentionally amateurish.
Dick pics are what lead a candidate for Paris Mayor election to resign this year. It is a powerful item against some people.
Not necessarily. It's possible to splice together compressed video streams without reencoding them. See https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate
Getting called up for a random sample is not the same as "Anyone who wants a test can get it" It also doesn't necessarily mean that MT has enough tests to go around
Ode to a Pager (2019)
I want content-linked advertising. If I’m reading a music blog I want to see ads for bands and synths, not razors and wrenches. If I’m reading stackoverflow I’d be content to gloss over ads for text editors and web hosting. Not the same f*ing razor ad.

Call me old school (I’m a 70s baby, 80s child). I enjoyed the content-linked advertising in magazines. I actually read them and used them to learn the market around my interest.

Robot selected ads which follow me around claiming to know what I like based on interactions I had do all the following:

- creep me out because I know I’m being followed

- annoy Me by removing any semblance of my own agency in the event: at least with content-linked ads I have chosen to consume that content and I feel like I want to in that zone

- annoy me by getting me wrong

- annoy me by assuming I’m just like everyone else that ticked the same boxes/set the same flags

- annoy me by presenting mostly mainstream stuff rather than small-scale/artisan/bespoke/local stuff that would be much more interesting. I appreciate that this one ought to work better if the advertising host/network knew where I was browsing from (which is a step towards tracking)

The tracking and bidding has completely destroyed what was actually good about advertising for the consumer.
I second this. This is my number one usability issue with TB, that I use almost everyday.

Example: I recently (2 months) received, say, 150 e-mails from one person. During that same period, that person has also received lots (~300) of e-mails that are in my client: ones I sent, ones they were CC-ed, etc.

Now, I need to find that pdf they sent me some time ago. It would be no problem to scour the 10 or so message I received from this adress with a pdf attached (still doable without the mimetype).

TB lets me search messages that "concern" that person, but also gives me the ones they didn't send. Would a "sent by" be too hard to provide? Quick search works a lot better than the regular search for this, it's something I do multiple times a day. I sometimes spend more than 5 minutes looking for an e-mail, then give up, load zimbra, and I'm able to find the e-mail in 10 seconds thanks to the more granular filtering available there.
Yup. What I would like to see: Normally, to act as a law enforcement official you must have clearly displayed identity. Without this identity you are not considered to be an agent of the state and have no powers a passerby would not have.

The identity may be pseudoanonymous but the agency must be able to link it back to the individuals.

I would make exceptions for undercover officers who are discovered or who choose to break cover, and I would make exceptions for circumstances beyond their control. (You don't cease to be a cop because someone destroyed your identification in the incident etc.)

Likewise, I would like to see their powers go away if they aren't filming, likewise with an exception for something that happened during the incident. (But turning off one's camera is voluntary, it doesn't count unless you did it under duress.)
Please stop repeating the “there might not be long term immunity” meme. It is unfounded and contradicts decades of established immunological principles.

Memory T-Cell reactivity to SARS-1 has been shown to persist across decades. The latest study showed strong activity after 17+ years.

SARS-2 is incredibly structurally similar to SARS-1.

Even if we pretend t-cells don’t exist, immunological memory is a thing. Once circulating antibodies have completely faded after months, there still remain memory b cells which persist across decades and will ramp up antibody production all over again when exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Therefore the subsequent infection is addressed more quickly and more powerfully, leading to lower peak viral load and therefore theoretically lowered transmissibility and vastly improved individual outcomes.

So if we pretend half the immune system doesn’t exist, then you can get reinfected months later but you will spread way less and not be at any significant personal risk of bad outcome.

Herd immunity works. It’s a natural phenomenon that has been unjustifiably demonized.
I am talking about serological studies in Italy and South Korea. For confirmed cases death rates are 5%, but that’s because a bunch of people are positive and untested (many of them asymptomatic).

One thing to remember that at any one time there might be 99% not serious, but that includes a bunch of people who are recovering from serious or who will degrade to serious. Over the full cycle of the disease a much larger percentage will have a serious state. Close to 1% will die.

At the same time, being in prone position, getting steroids, etc really do seem to increase survival so maybe the death rate now is lower.
Yet it seems to have changed nation-wide in order to accommodate those who are "protesting". You can't get it both ways.
Most likely. I understand the appeal of these types of applications but it really just comes off as entitled IMO. Just watch the ads to support the content creators you care about - it isn’t that hard.

I imagine this will be an unpopular opinion here though.
Google, since they ship a web browser for a billion Android devices? Mozilla, since they do the same?
Youtube Vanced is another ad-free client (albeit not open source) that you can login with your Google account: https://vanced.app/
Once talking to my therapist about anxiety I get at night and can't sleep, she innocently asked "Can't you listen to the sound of your own breath or focus on your heart beat..." she didn't get any further. I instantly said "Dear god, no. If I focus on my heart beat at any moment I spiral into an anxious depressed mess"
The attacks as described forfeited a giant amount of leverage. It was like breaching a bank vault and just stealing some rolls of coins. By doing something high profile, the attackers gave up any shot at persistence inside the infrastructure, and didn't even show any forethought on political options. It's like some employee's kid using their parents device got hacked by his schoolmates. However, we can probably surmise that if people this dumb are inside the platform, smarter attackers are in there too.
Florida reported 80k tests 7/16. 100k tests on the 12th. Not sure if they fixed the not reporting negatives yet.

Central Florida as driventhru testing, no reservation or symptoms required. They recently opened a diy swab line for people with symptoms.

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/coronavirus-where-testing-is...
When you hit stop-a to emergency-halt the system, you'd see this console.
Confirmed that the shadow dom switch is available to the component author, so they'd have to do two builds if they wanted to use both in different projects.

Agreed the shadow dom didn't seem ready for me neither, but I feel that we're getting there, and meanwhile it's hopefully optional.
In my country they check bloodbanks periodically in combination with sewage I think to get a sample of Covid and traces of it.
I love reading these articles because it is a win-win:

1. If I already know the tidbit, I give myself a pat on the back

2. If I don't know the tidbit, yay, I learned something.

Someday I'll be 100% in the #1. What got me in this article "ch" size.

Fact: the heigh/width calculation has changed over the years. It is likely this article captures the final method, let's hope so.
Ask HN: Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?
Hi HN,

I have a website for a piece of software I make, and Google search traffic accounts for a reasonably large portion of downloads. At the end of April, I moved the site to a new domain (using Google's "site move" tool), and everything appeared to be fine – Google indexed the new site within a few days, and traffic remained the same. However, in the past few weeks, I've noticed a drop in traffic to the site, and when I looked at the Search Console, I realized that all traffic from Google suddenly disappeared in the middle of June: https://i.imgur.com/S1CCl2f.png

Google has all the pages in the site indexed - when I search for "site:[my URL]", the pages show up as expected – but they seem to have been completely removed from any search results. If I search for the exact name of my app, where my site was previously the first result, the site appears nowhere in the 16 pages of results that are returned (I looked at all of them!). Similarly, if I copy a few sentences or an entire paragraph from the site and search for exact matches, Google will return irrelevant results or no results at all, and my site won't be included anywhere in the results.

At least from the search console, everything appears fine - there are no errors reported, and the "manual actions" and "security issues" sections are empty. The site content has barely changed in the last few months, so I can't see any reason for the change.

What can I do? There seems to be no way to contact an actual human, and since nothing on the site has changed, I can't think of anything to revert. I could try going back to my old domain, but I'm worried that would confuse Google even more, and I'm not sure that's even the source of the issue. Has anyone on HN ever faced this problem before?
All that is there for SEO? I’ve been wondering why this new format is so ubiquitous.
Is this an acute awareness of your heartbeat or is it that your heart beats more intensely?

I ask because I used to have panic attacks and I would become suddenly aware of my heart beating faster than normal but my heart rate monitor showed it was not, and my blood pressure monitor showed I was still normal - it was effectively only my awareness that was out of whack for whatever reason. I was turned on to meditation and can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had these panic attacks in the last year.
I have had this exact feeling regarding my heart for a year and a half and until now felt nobody understood.

For me it is constant chest pain that comes and goes essentially whenever it wants. It is quite varied and never fails to keep worrying me with its novelty. Sometimes burning, sometimes squeezing, sometimes stabbing. Been to the doctor and ER dozens of times. No diagnosis. And it isn't even correlated with anxiety as far as I can tell, although the anxiety only makes it worse. Sometimes NSAIDs make the pain unbearable. Sometimes they don't.

It doesn't even make sense because as far as I understand the heart isn't innervated, so why is the pain always on the left side of my chest?

I went to urgent care and they reported my cholesterol levels, etc. were excellent.

It's so terrible because the heart is critically tied to our ability to continue living through unconscious action, and so anything regarding it feels completely out of control in the moment. Meaning your instant death is out of your control. Now have that on your mind for 365 days and see how it feels.

So after spending dozens of times trying to figure out if something's wrong with my body, seeing as it's probably trying to send some sort of signal, and completely failing to come up with an answer, what else is there left to do? Worry about dying every single day?

Early on I got so many palpitations I was sitting in bed holding a heart monitor on my chest until 3 in the morning. This was when I was 23 and started to regret all the life decisions I had made in college to feel this awful and scared about my health that young. Today if I get like three palpitations in the span of five minutes I'll be completely unable to keep focusing on work and go off trying to manage the anxiety in the hopes of not dying.

If anything it's pushed me to eat more vegetables and such, but I don't know if it will end up helping.
Show HN: Priceless AI: All-you-can-eat image object detection at a fixed price
The US electrical system is not 120V
That's probably why it's on F-Droid
> "The JIT is currently developed on x86 and is based on Lua’s JIT. As Lua’s JIT supports ARM64, ..."

I'm confused when they say it's based on LuaJIT? Do they mean PHP is being transcoded to Lua and run by LuaJIT.

Or do they mean that PHP-JIT is based on "DynASM" - which is a subproject of LuaJIT?

http://luajit.org/dynasm.html
> Why do they fear this?

Modern medicine had seen before severe cardiovascular accidents and is aware of what a damage in young arteries or heart can produce. Some tissues can self-repair better than other.

The origin is new, but the consequences of damage on any main organ are well studied.
Well if your child can't make it in USA, s•he will not make it in Europe either. You can't just land in France and become a citizen without a job.

But do you want your child to immigrate because you live in a country of selfish people? I'm sure you would find the situation difficult.

By the way, the communities you are mentioning in France are French since a few generations and not foreigners.
Not just Vitamin D, but to a lesser extent nitric oxide as well.

Anyway to state your excellent point in a different way: “contain until vaccine” is a strategy based around a temporally unbounded future event. When has it ever made sense to bet the farm on a highly uncertain future event?

This world would be so much better off if we never knew that SARS-2 existed and therefore did not engage in any artificial suppression of natural transmission.
I suspect their are two reasons. The first is incompetence. The second is that the President does not want to know how many cases their are. (He has explicitly stated the latter.)
Ya, I'd love to see a demo page where you show off 25-50% of your favorite examples. The individual doc pages look really nice though
that was a long and mediocre intelligence story
That's why I'm on YouTube Premium. I definitely watch enough youtube to get $10 out of it.
> This isn't a scalable solution.

I am not sure what your point is.

> If the value per ad decreases, services will need to display more til the user generates enough value to support the costs they incur.

What they need to do is to find a way to pay their bills. If ads allow them to do that then it's great (maybe non-personalized work well enough? Or contextual targeting, as others have suggested in this thread). If users cannot stand the increasing amount of ads then they will stop using their service. Or maybe these companies can adopt a mixed model where people can pay to not see the super intrusive ads, and everyone else gets the ads?
> If TV was able to cater ads to individual viewers then ad breaks would be a lot shorter.

Personalized ads is one of the 'features' of ATSC 3.0 whenever that finally rolls out: https://www.techhive.com/article/3268635/next-gen-tv-to-ushe...
Facebook’s ML can probably use these events and improve DoorDash’s ad delivery efficiency by a significant percentage. It potentially equates to millions of dollars of savings depending on how they use the ad platform. Even just allowing doordash to measure their advertising outcomes is a big deal compared to traditional advertising. You could spend $X million on tv and have no clue if it worked, or spend it on Facebook and use these events to get precise measurement to what degree your ad dollars are resulting in real business outcomes.
Thanks for your response. I've brought this up for discussion on our community server and we will try to find ways to make our UI more intuitive.
. This idea goes in the right direction, in my views. I already sign ip to newsletters for things I want repeated reminders for, or updates about. If your service replaced newsletters, and could guarantee to work for things like ticket sales as well as commodity items, it might work.
> so I have no idea how they always manage to looks so good in the corruption statistics.

It's all about definition of corruption isn't it?

In European politics and press we describe "outright deliberate corruption" with innocent deceiving descriptions such as "lobbying" and "failed government IT projects".

Is Northern Europe less corrupt than the South? Or is the Northern corruption just more institutionalized (aka: more competent at corruption)? I wouldn't know where to start to get an answer to that.

Is it corruption if the public never finds out?
I duno man the 'immunity may not even be long lasting' could be true but bringing that up seems like a weird sort of pseudo assumption too...
Which is why publishing a misleading headline followed by a misleading first paragraph, and burying the facts in the middle or bottom of the article is such a common practice. Journalists know only a small fraction of the readers will read the whole thing and it is one of the many ways to lie without lying.
Blame Google. A few years ago, it started prioritizing pages that had a high word count. So SEOs had no option but to pad up their pages with filler content.

I've personally seen a page go from #20 to #2 just by adding 1000 extra words of content.
In general: "studies have shown that the risk for serious mental illness is generally higher in cities compared to rural areas" [1].

For NYC specifically: about 60k out of America's 500k homeless people live in New York City, which is the highest homeless population of any US city [2]. The "large majority of street homeless New Yorkers are people living with mental illness or other severe health problems" [3].

These sources confirm what I think a lot of people have seen for themselves through personal travel and experience: mental illness/instability correlates with urbanization.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5374256/

[2] https://www.statista.com/chart/6949/the-us-cities-with-the-m...

[3] https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/basic-facts-about-ho...
Of course I know the difference. Pango is part of the "new world" in which all text rendering is done client-side. BDF is the old X11 bitmap format, used for X11's server-side text rendering. It makes sense for Pango to move away from supporting it, as hardly anyone uses BDF anymore except for backward compatibility with legacy X applications, and the world is moving away from X.

Matter of fact, rendering everything is moving to client side, hence why X is increasingly unnecessary, and why Wayland is designed the way it is.

Oh, and among "Wayland fans" you can count just about everyone who knows anything about the Linux graphics stack, except maybe for Keith Packard. So yes, getting traction is important, because no one wants to keep maintaining the broken X architecture. Xorg is largely maintained by Red Hat who have put it in "hard maintenance" mode with virtually no new development.
Are you sure you aren't just misremembering?
This Will Make You Laugh _ Funny Videos 2020
Sorry guys,PHP is the outdated! (From someone who start PHP in 2000 with PHP 2.0 and is still reading lastest Laravel code source).
To young people: choose your language wisely, you don't need to know PHP to be successful in Web dev
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=e... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_cases_in_the_Unite...

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Those all seem like features any modern programming language has. Nothing here particularly distinguishes PHP from the rest of the crowd. I don't think anyone is surprised by the fact that PHP has classes and some niche methods integrated in most standard libraries.

I would like to go one further and say most other more modern programming languages do each of these better. It's always a good idea to look what is beyond the horizon.
It doesn't answer the most important question: is it OAuth2 now?
What a nasty text... 2- bad jurnalism for not writing objective truth.

So that "Mr. Trzaskowsky" is vice in Civic Party. You wanna know why they lost governing power 2 elections ago ?

Simple, becouse they are literally, LITERALLY, __uncapable__ of ruling !

Orginal from C.P:
Scams ? "Our scams ?? Check Espana !"
What they thing about their own internals and "governing way" ? "This is cesspit..." and "Shit, ass and stones heap"

I'm not making it, they mean all that ! :>

The moust expensive, "negotiated" price for oil from Rossia ? Check !
Inability to reform our military ? Actually, dismantle it as much as possible ? Check !
Allow China to destroy hundreds of small companies while _not_ finish few kilometers of highway ? Check !

Fuel costs 5 zł ? Prime Minister: Give me 7 !

And Trzaskowski "achivement" as capitol mayor, while not on sick leave, are: returning stoled to thives ! Seriously ! And poisoning main Poland river with stinking something.

Yea, The Economist ! And just few minutes ago I respected E. for some reason...