skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An AI can't fake a speech

Nonsense.

"It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you that Apollo 11 has failed to return from the moon. We have lost contact with our crew, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin. When they left earth seven hours ago their fate was unknown but now it is certain. They died as men should, ready to die for what they believed. This loss is a tremendous loss for our nation, for their families, and for mankind but their sacrifice was not made in vain: It is a testimony to courage, determination, and human achievement that will be remembered by all who witnessed it today and for all those who come for all time so long as man walks this world or any other. For this tragedy will not mark the end of space exploration; it will strengthen our resolve to continue advancing space technology and human knowledge. We have enjoyed the fruits of their labor and shared the pride of their achievement just as we now share their isolation and grief. We will honor their memory by continuing that work and by taking that faith and that dream into a future they will not live to see but helped to build. We will remember them and we will remember what they stood for: The greatness of man and the hope for a better tomorrow."

This isn't a first shot output, I had it retry a bit and guided it a little, mostly to get it to write a longer speech instead of a short quote. I think it's much better than I could have written on my own in a minute or two.
There's comedic embellishments in there but it's all painfully true...
https://humanvarieties.org/2015/10/30/asian-american-subgrou...
> If they can’t fund the annual net increase in pension obligations they are incurring, then they either need to raise their rates or lower their pension benefits.

I believe this requires Congress. Hence why USPS is kneecapped. They’re legally obligated to fund them and also prohibited from taking the steps necessary to fully fund them.
that works unless the source is proprietary and non-accesible :(
A common enough misconception to be have been included in a dictionary!
> did any of these alternatives also ship google play side by side with alternative stores?

Yes. Samsung and LG have both.
Because race is a key factor in American politics, especially when it comes to discussions about civil rights like voting. Because there are heavy racial divides in partisan alignment in the US. It is impossible to have a meaningful discussion of voting rights in the US without the subject of race coming up, any more than it would be possible to have a discussion of environmental issues without discussing carbon emissions, or of reproductive medicine without discussing gender.
The top comment is violently decrying Apple. I’m sure what you say happens does, but not to the extent that it completely changes the conversation.
It’s always worth checking back as early negative or positive feedback doesn’t always remain.
They had a commercial all ready to go mocking Apple. They know what they’re doing and they wanted a war.
PHP7 will still be supported for a while. Debian will probably support it even further. You'll have a long ass time to fix these.

Even if you wanted to push the 8.0.0 to production as soon as it came out, you'd still have until November to run your tests on the RC branch and report any mishaps to the development team.

The backwards compatibility is mostly targeted to major platforms (Wordpress, Drupal, Magento, Symfony, etc).

> Have fun debugging code that worked perfectly well for years and now produces unpredictable results.

This describes my everyday experience with any language or codebase.

The cause for the unpredictable results are often human-related though, not version-related.

> Some of the changes are sadistic. "The precedence of the concatenation operator has changed relative to bitshifts and addition as well as subtraction."

I would gladly remove any code that does concatenation and math/bitwise on the same expression relying on the operator precedence. Sadistic is the person who writes these.

More than 2000 packages were analyzed and only 5 instances of that particular use were found[1], all bugs. This is a good change.

[1]: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/105442
I really love my Model 3 and the new Model Y looks pretty nice too.

Not having to deal with the dealership model and salesmen to get the price is a lot better.

I don’t think I’ll buy a different brand for the foreseeable future.
What do you suppose would cost more: bailing out the failing business model of the USPS for decades to come, or just having state governments contract with another delivery company to deliver ballots during election years?
Train wheels are pretty interesting. To keep good performance, wheelsets (axle and 2 wheels) are regularly removed and the wheels are machined on a lathe. This can also be done while the wheels are on the train. Then every couple of years the wheels are popped off the axle and new wheels are pressed on. The axles last like 70 years.

With such care, the rolling resistance is very low, but it takes a bit more power to start moving. Despite that, one strong person can push one rail car, usually starting with use of a pry bar.

A locomotive cannot actually move many rail cars from rest. That’s why there is slack between each car, and to start, the locomotive is first reversed to push the rail cars together, then moves forward, pulling a single car until the slack is taken up, which pulls the next one, and so on. That’s also why you see one locomotive pulling so many cars. If a train stops on an incline for some reason, it generally needs to reverse all the way down the incline and start again.

The static coefficient comes into play during braking and if the locomotive wheels slip under power. For that, sand is applied to increase friction.
I've gotten better service and respect for my privacy from USPS than any telecom monopoly like Verizon. If anything this feels like an argument in favor of municipal broadband. If the telecom industry is any indication, eliminating the USPS would just result in private mail carriers divvying up the country into a few regions run by monopolies, with lower quality service, and profiting at the expense of users. The point of a public good isn't to profit, but to serve a need that can't adequately be served by the private sector.
> ...fairly reasonable rate of $120/hr

Hahaha, I wish I could tell my clients that's a fairly reasonable rate! The only situation where that's fairly reasonable is when you're contracting with MegaCorp Inc...
US population by ethnicity (2019)

- Black or African American alone, percent(a) 13.4%

- American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent(a) 1.3%

- Asian alone, percent(a)5.9%

- Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent(a) 0.2%

- Two or More Races, percent 2.8%

- Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 18.5%

SOURCE:

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219
> but still can't generate a text for this kind of speech.

I disagree. Maybe the output I gave above wouldn't quite pass for the output of one of the greatest speech writers of the time, but most speeches are rubbish and I think what you can get out of GPT3 well operated is not at all rubbish.
Not even close to the lowest price.

And that isn't a solution, either.
AMC Business Model Is Based on Lies That Hurt the Consumer
Why do it now though? Why not wait after the election in case you need the machines to handle the ballot load? Why is it suddenly the utmost importance to remove these machines and sell them for essentially pennies on the dollar. Why are they rushing to remove mailboxes around communities?

Anyone that thinks letter volume isn't in just a temp slump is lying to themselves to justify what's going on.
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Why not sign this with your username
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/new-yor...

https://wtop.com/virginia/2020/08/unsolicited-absentee-appli...
I heard a rumor that governor Cuomo wants the 1% back but mayor De Blasio told them to fuck off. _scratches head_
An exemption like the other big players got. The carefully crafted rules are re-written for the powerful.
fuck yeah brother.
Not click-able on firefox 76.0
Why not? It's a lot more than just "3%" because that's in addition to the 13% state taxes they already pay. Many California businesses have already moved to Texas for lower tax rates.
The real discrimination is continued legacy and athletic admissions which artificially inflate the number of white students (discriminating against Asians and other minorities).

43% of white students at Harvard are legacy, athletes, or related to donors. Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-...
What money? Like I said, the USPS has been losing money even before it makes the pension payments. To cover it's pension costs the USPS has been taking on debt from the treasury.
Where you're pretty much stuck google play store, which has also banned the app...

There is side-loading, but there's a lot of friction there that I wouldn't expect normal users to withstand.
The Lincoln Project counts no elected officials as members. Come on.
Yes, this is an active (as in: in progress crime) sabotage of the most crucial distribution system we have for the purpose of manipulating the election.

> During an interview with Fox Business Network, the president said that he will block funding for the US Postal Service requested by Democratic lawmakers, citing his intention to prevent universal mail-in voting. Trump acknowledged in the interview that the USPS will be unable to process a large number of ballots from mail-in voting without the funding.
Many have tried. There's a simple reason that you glance at but don't directly confront in your post. The "voting rings" you outline are actually a huge constituency, thanks to the outlandish concentration of wealth and resources in the hands of these few companies (I mean FAANG - YC has a huge and unique network but I don't suspsect it's anywhere close to the same scale in dollars or current employees). No site can keep out so many skilled and knowledgeable techies and expect to keep up the level of quality that HN provides. This is one of those cases where culture flows pretty clearly from material reality - you can't have a better site until the titans are dethroned and dismembered. So, if you want a better HN, don't build an HN clone! Build political power that will target monopolies, monopsonies, and anything "too big to fail" for levelling and redistribution.
Samsung has the Galaxy Appstore on their Android devices.

> they have their alternative OS

This is Tizen, and it doesn't support Android apps at all. It's a completely different operating system, so not entirely clear why Sumsung would want Android apps on it.
I think the choice is between one party who is actively seeking the demise and one party who, probably, at least won't do that...
That is pretty cool. I hadn't thought what it would be like with two of these back to back in a gaming situation.

From the video you linked the opacity seems to be much better than I expected. I'm hoping one or more of the high end TV shops put this into their show room so I can see it in person.
This isn’t an accurate representation.

Epic gave nothing to Apple. Apple gave Epic $840 in proceeds from sales it couldn’t have made without Apple’s work.

I think you know that the margins Apple charges for the apps they retail are not a listing fee, and pay for a significant collection of services.

I’m not commenting on whether Apple’s margin is too high or not. Just that this comment is a misrepresentation.
This is bad, right-biased reporting. CNN at least has a story about the murder of Cannon Hinnant[1].

For context, the implication here is that "liberal media" only reports white-on-Black or police-on-Black crime.

It's true that murders often tend to be local news stories unless they fit a national or historical pattern. Obviously there is no pattern for young Black men murdering white children.

Another counterpoint is the widespread national coverage of the murder of Secoriea Turner, a child shot at a roadblock protest in Atlanta. If there were a narrative they were trying to suppress, you would expect them to suppress that story.

I don't see any reason that this child's murder is of national interest unless someone believes there is an unreported trend of Black-on-white-child violence (which of course there isn't).

1. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/us/north-carolina-boy-killed/...

2. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/atlanta-shootings-secoriea...
Only if Tim is willing to sell it.
I’ve been using Veryfi (neé IQBoxy) with fairly good results.

https://www.veryfi.com/
Based off the responses I got I should written a longer post. I figured with Hawaii it would never be a place to live forever, but maybe a year or two. Spend time checking out all of the islands. Actually getting like really good at surfing. A lot of the stuff I read make it sound unreasonable to actually settle down for a long time there. Family is no where close, not really a great place raise kids?well it's probably fun but not setting them up for success. North shore was an amazing time when I visited... I don't need hip restaurants and nightlife I'm over that.
The 3% rate applies only income above 5M.
Easy C/C++ reflection library without RTTI
> against mail-in ballots because they are subject to all sorts of interference.

Quite the opposite, mail in ballots create an irrefutable and unfalsifiable paper trail for each vote.

Republicans (and Trump) are against them because they know the more people vote (ie. the more democratic America is) the less chance they have at winning.
1. it's all about diversity and equality these days, meaning every thing should be distributed proportionally based on race population and by gender. the ultimate goal will be wealth re-distribution(or, communism), until then, it is not going to stop.

2. especially in hi tech and elite universities.

3. NBA is an exception, actually all sports can be an exceptions.

4. Asian is not considered as minority when it come to college admissions, what doe minority mean?

5. MIT and many other STEM universities has 50:50 boys and girls, if not so, it's called gender discrimination.

...

So, let's throw out SAT/ACT/GPA and admit people via 'holistic' review, i.e. totally subjective, which means, the more miserable you're the better chance you will have, we joked as parents the best we can do for our kids is going to jail, do drugs, go bankrupt, so our kids can get some benefits. Nice family, law-biding family are basically punished.

I have not seen anywhere more communism like in USA now, you cut the corner because of your race or gender, merit-based is racism, we're going to hell.

I wish those AA pumpers will get a doctor who was admitted/graduated/career-ed based on AA rules, when they need a cure the most at hospitals.
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Yep. Familiar with it. Looks like two different sales strategies though. Good luck out there.
Like Blm anti protests, think it was more of a Orange county thing then all of so cal.
> I feel w.r.t app stores, Google is User-centric, but Apple is Apple-Centric at the expense of their customers.

There are enough shady apps, especially games, on both stores already without them asking you to enter your credit card details. At least with the current system you can set up parental controls.

I think allowing apps to process their own payments is a recipe for disaster and will open up the floodgates for apps, especially games, trying to trick kids into purchasing expensive in-app crap.
We’re about to see an end to standardized tests for college admissions. This is paving the way for discrimination against good students who wish to attend elite universities. Currently elite universities ideas of diversity and “personality” are more important than upholding educational standards.

It is simply wrong to evaluate and condemn a person based on race. To justify any kind of discrimination on the idea that you are helping one person, you are hurting another. This an equally problematic, it’s taking us back to times before equal rights and for people to be judged on their abilities.

Hoping a brilliant student will apply to a university twice and deepfake their race in one of their admission interview videos.
False dichotomy; there's another option, which is to use a lottery: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/44-the-powerball-revo...
So I'm trying to understand your point here. If a console maker charges 10% of revenue it's OK, but if Apple charges 30% it's illegal? And a court should decide the percentage allowed?

I'm no fan of Apple -- they engage in massive tax avoidance, labor arbitrage, and are just too big for my taste. Same criticism of Google. And Facebook. But you don't go from emotion --> must be illegal. There has to be some reasonable standard you can apply that will make sense across time and across companies/industries. What is that standard?

Perhaps congress should legislate the share of revenue that a platform is allowed to take. Not being ironic; if we are going to regulate this, let's do it with lawmakers instead of courts.
I’m not sure about that. Does a letter being delivered within the same zip code even touch these machines?

I would guess that the vast majority of mailed ballots would be for local delivery and sorted by the mail carrier at the point they are picked up, and never hit one of these regional distribution centers.

And ballots on the way out would be pre-sorted.
If you start a trend and the cost of living goes up, it will cause some tension.
This would be really nice. It's objective, quantitative, scalable and I think fair. This gets to the real problem too because if dynamics ever changed and some other groups we disadvantaged at large, they woukd automatically be advantaged here. Thus it automatically adapts to the situation. Not saying its perfect, but it'd be a great improvement.
Epic pushed a server-side update which gave users on both iOS and Android access to discounted prices that sidestepped the usual 30% cut to Apple or Google. This was a violation of terms of service on both platforms, so Fortnite was removed from both the App Store and the Play Store. Epic already knew this would happen, which is why they prepared their PR and legal teams accordingly.
Every American voter should be on the same side here, but they aren't.

Look, I agree with where you're coming from - there are certain things that are simply matters of right and wrong and are not a matter of whether you're on Team Red or Team Blue. But the whole reason we have political parties is that it turns out we disagree, strongly, about what right and wrong are. It is a disservice to the cause you agree with and an insult to the seriousness of those you disagree with to say that such-and-such decision about how we run our country should be non-partisan instead of acknowledging the reality that it is.

It happens to be the case that for many things, like "Should we have elections or simply have hereditary rule" or "Should people be allowed to leave their religion" or "Should we invade our neighboring countries because we are the rightful owners of this continent" or "Should people be allowed to marry outside their race" or whatever, the two major parties, organizationally, do not disagree with each other. But those are and have been political debates in other times and in other places. Sometimes questions that you wouldn't expect to be political, like "Should people stay away from each other during a plague," become political.

If you believe in a particular answer to one of these questions, and one team agrees with you and the other doesn't, do not delude yourself into thinking that both teams agree with you merely because you think they should agree with you.
The service fees pay for the service, but part of that is in the OS which you received with the hardware, but which continues to be updated.
African American. Everyone should answer the race question with whatever they think benefits themselves the most, because race is bullshit.
That's exactly the first thing pop up to my mind also.
USPS is mainly only the last-mile delivery for Amazon; Amazon already has many warehouses all around the US.

Also packages continue to grow as revenue for USPS: https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2020/0807-...

> Meanwhile, Shipping and Packages revenue increased by $2.9 billion, or 53.6 percent, on a volume increase of 708 million pieces, or 49.9 percent, compared to the same quarter last year.

So apparently they're charging a good amount. There's also the Postal Regulatory Commission which has reported that USPS does make money on the contract with Amazon.

It continues to be that the biggest drain on the USPS is the declines in first-class mail and billing mail. Junk mail is also declining.
Apple has plenty of funding to fight a lawsuit. They can divert some of the share-buyback funds.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/apple-launches-unprecedent...
Didn’t expect to read this in this thread. I was there yesterday! Are you from Australia? Why not Gold Coast further north?
My tenth son will always be my tenth son. Though his birthday falls 10 months after that of my twelfth son (whose birthday came in the second month of the calendar year in which he was born), my tenth son will always have come out of the womb tenth!
I understand this question, but I believe an eshop is different from a major platform used by hundreds of millions of people on a daily basis to run their lives.
Or a quality education k-12 to begin with
Yust a little lefse vill go a long vay.
Watch literally any episode of Jon Oliver on something you've glanced at the Wikipedia article for, and his partisan bias is grossly apparent.

Guy you're replying to didn't really make an argument, no, but it's worth ridiculing someone for posting Jon Oliver, because it is a thing to be ridiculed. That's about as bad a linking to a Bill O'Reilly op-ed as far as I'm concerned.
Epic's quote at the time was the following:

> Google puts software downloadable outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through technical and business measures such as scary, repetitive security pop-ups for downloaded and updated software, restrictive manufacturer and carrier agreements and dealings, Google public relations characterizing third party software sources as malware, and new efforts such as Google Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store.
Apple and Google are similar to China and America. Apple has more restrictive policies within a walled garden. Google gives more freedoms but its platform is wild and open. It's easy for Apple to take advantage of Google's ecosystem and open policies, but very difficult for Google to do the same to Apple. It's similar to how US companies don't get a fair shake in China. And in both, the citizens get taken advantage of and the little people have no power. Did any of what I just said make any sense?
It’s a federal crime to tamper with USPS mail. If UPS or FedEx decide not to deliver your parcel you may be entitled to a partial refund.
Ask HN: What processes/methods do you find helpful in your day to day work?
I searched but couldn't find something similar. I was debugging an issue today and had to write a short script to get the list of affected entities.

I came from a C++/C# background and I'm newer to using IPython, but it's absolutely changed how I develop for the better. I definitely feel more productive, but I can't prove it.

That being said, I noticed that adhering to some more discipline while writing the script, like using a real debugger instead of print debugging, writing types for my functions instead of passing around tuples/dicts, and tests probably would've helped even more.

So HN, what processes/methods do you find helpful in your day to day work?

Another way to phrase this is what things have you learned that changed how you work for the better?