skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kind of interesting that she had to fight to build a female TTS at bell labs and now the major TTS systems in America are all female voices. Ironically this has lead to accusations of sexism.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-assistants-voice-mean...

All that said, TTS quality has really improved in the past 10 years, it always amazes me.
If we're not seeing that in the present, I don't anticipate seeing it in the future. I see a future of monopolistic rentseekers continuing to make the least possible effort.
Why? It seems like a decent way to measure how valuable something is. All of the money changing hands in a city for one year could buy you Tesla. $300 billion on its own has nothing I can relate the size to.
It has some delay and dynamic timed IPs do the rest.
It may not be your intention, but the tone of your comments is very aggressive. Further, your sarcasm is off-putting. I understand this is a hot-button issue, so maybe take a breather.
My wife asks our teenage sons to send her Spotify links to music they like, so Spotify will start recommending songs she has already heard, or songs that sound a lot like all the songs she already listens to.
I think you underestimate how often there are intermittent mail delivery failures, especially for custom domains.
I'm also curious how you're doing this. One of my apps heavily uses the Spotify API and Spotify has started to get very strict on who uses their API and if/how they are allowed to monetize.
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Bad analogy.

Destroying MacBooks that could be repaired is detrimental to the environment.

Manufacturing a new laptop uses rare metals, petrol, all sorts of chemicals, tons of water and generates pollution.
From the HN guidelines[1]:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

"Eschew flamebait.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for."

Now please consider how many of these guidelines the "You've been brainwashed by left-wing media" insult violated.

The comment was downvoted not because it "told the truth" or talked about a taboo subject, but because it violated the community norms of keeping the site friendly, and making substantial, thoughtful comments.

Now if the poster had omitted the insult and actually substantiated their claim about diversity not mattering much instead of making a throwaway comment about it, they probably would have gotten a bunch of upvotes and maybe even sparked a lively debate.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> How do I commit to an idea?

One method: don’t. Commit to getting response from prospective customers about an idea, then when the response is good, trying to get people to commit to paying for it. The post written by Quell is a great example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24210098. Excerpts:

> We learned that no one wanted the hassle of a punchbag, but everyone loved the idea of feeling the satisfying physical resistance

> our potential users hated the idea of setting up a camera

> The response was incredible, with CPA coming in 75% lower than our benchmarks. We opened pre-orders to test whether these people would convert and got fifty orders in the first month

Obviously hardware has some unique challenges, but still, they got the concept in front of users while it was still an idea. Your belief in the idea doesn’t need to motivate you all the way to release, just far enough to try to find potential users, talk with them, and adapt your idea.

Badically, pick the idea/product that you’d buy yourself if it existed today, and then try to get 10 people interested in it (or if/when they aren’t, find out why) - with ads, blog posts, or anything else. After you get 10, get 100. After you get 100, ask some to pay for it. When some seem willing to, start building it.
or 446 years if the melt rate is doubling every 30 years.
It depends on the CPU, though in most CPUs, the comparison is a separate instruction from the branch. For example, on x86,

CMP RAX, RBX
JL label

would jump if RAX < RBX.

Similarly, on ARM:

CMP r1, r2
BLT label /* jump if r1<r2 */

Some processors do have a conditional jump that takes the registers to compare though, such as the PDP-10's bewildering array of skip instructions:

CAML A, B
ADDI C, 100 ; This instruction will be skipped if A < B

Finally, it's also fairly common to have branch instructions that compare against 0, such as PDP-10:

JUMPL A, label ; jump if A<0

That said, off the top of my head, I don't know of any real processors with something equivalent to the fantasy CPU's JL, which combines a comparison between two registers with a jump to an arbitrary immediate.
Don't make this personal. You don't know anything about me or my work.

I am surprised at the HN reaction here and how many people are upset over something I never said though.
TikTok videos are a few seconds long, compared to YouTube's 10+ minutes (on average). Top creators can post 5-10 videos a day on TikTok and get 30-50 million views in a matter of hours, all with just a smartphone. The ROI easily beats YouTube, no comparison.
You could check out IndieHackers.com for other solopreneurs.

With respect to partnerships, I find it difficult to consider someone who I have not built things with or shared emotional baggage with as a business partner.

So if I had to approach this problem, I would pick an arbitrary problem and as an experiment start building with the friends I find on such platforms/communities to see how the working relationship evolves.
I wouldn't really call that a problem, much like "non-work thoughts" will occur while you're "at work" too.
> there is output to tell users not to compromise themselves by blindly pasting unsafe code

For reference: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/47160230/51995729-...

This is also present in the Electron version of Discord.

> there is no reason for an end user to have access to dev tools in an electron app.

Certainly there is - there are various user-made applications that take advantage of Discord being built on Electron to allow you to write your own custom styles and scripts.
Short & sweet: Software is just lambda calculus, and the USPTO has already decided math cannot be patented. It is bizarre they would make such a gigantic oversight.

Longer and more pedestrian: Computers are a sandbox that we've created ourselves. Programs are just a set of instructions to tell the computer what to do, and every possible thing a computer can do is already known and limited by the sandbox we have designed. To claim that a certain set of instructions causes the computer to do something more novel than any other is nonsense. It's all just moving bits around.

Down with software patents.
You are welcome. With spotify to Apple music conversion, your credentials are needed because the Apple music endpoint requires the user to be authenticated to be able to create playlists. Also, after a successful conversion, the links to each platforms playlist is listed on the web app. I thank you for checking it out.
I am afraid your argument is not supported by the facts in all cases. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/11/marjorie-...
Facebook is banned in China. Is it unreasonable to encourage US gvt to apply pressure for a more even playing field?

I know the narrative (and majority of comments) like to hate on Zuck, so just adding another perspective for this particular situation.
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> That's not at all what Python does.

I know what's going on and my comment was sufficiently accurate to get the point across in 1 sentence. I wasn't exactly intending to get into a lecture on MRO here.

> C++ solves the problem of not calling the "correct" superclass by default by foisting the responsibility of choosing the correct subset onto the derived class author

Which is much better than leaving a ticking time bomb.

> doesn't solve the "I called my superclass' method too many times"

Er, yes it does. Every class instance in a hierarchy is initialized exactly once. Trying to call it twice will produce an error (e.g. "class has already been initialized").

> Python resolves all three of these

It does not. It's perfectly fine letting you call a class's __init__ multiple times. Unlike with C++.

> Aside: "idiosyncratic" is an interesting word to use given that the C3 MRO was originally intended for Dylan.

It is a fine word. "Idiosyncrasy" does not imply there exists only 1 person in the whole world engaging in the given practice:

"Her habit of using “like” in every sentence was just one of her idiosyncrasies."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idiosyncrasy

I'm tired of the pointless arguing so this will be my last comment.
ClojureScript has some oddities compared to Clojure but in my experience acts much nicer than plain JS

Clj-kondo is good to detect unintended passing, in terms of correctness there are sometimes minor fixes but not at the expense of backwards compatibility which is taken very seriously in core

In terms of doing idiomatic Clojure in Typescript, "good" Clojure is data driven Typescript is type driven

Universal data primitives Vs label everything with types aren't terribly compatible
Shouldn't twitter be held to the same responsibility for sponsoring the Arab Spring? Americans overthrowing Arab governments
Internet in Germany is abysmal, and not only in the countryside.
I live in Berlin, our capital. I can't work from my studio since internet is too slow there. I know whole companies having moved their offices to different districts because they did not get sufficient internet. At the place I am currently at, I have LTE and officially it's listed to be in the highest category in terms of speed: I have about 1 mbit/s download. Some base station seems to be broke, but that is the case for months, and I would not even know where to complain about this. I’m actually only writing this while waiting for my software to update, so I can finally start doing something. And again, this is central Berlin, not somewhere remote.

For the "why?": in 2013 our chancellor Merkel said (on the NSA scandal) "Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland." which translates to "The internet is unchartered territories for all of us." – in 2013! As far as I know, they only have Wifi in the Bundestag (the parliament) for like two or three years, and I would not be surprised, if most of our politicians still read their emails printed out on paper.
Seriously, it is that bad. Germany is in the stone age in this regard.
Computer engineer demonstrates UberEats underpaying delivery drivers
For high engagement and advertiser friendly content it is more like two orders of magnitude more (3.50 per 1,000) or $3.5 M for 100,000,000 views
For things on the planetary surface I find it's useful to visualise a flatter shape. In this case I go for a 10 meter thick square that's 1700km on each side.

So Antarctica is about 5000km across. That's a lot of ice.
I’ve never heard this before but having used and debugged a lot of Google and Gcloud APIs, I have to say it resonates.
Does any of this matter?

It's up to the trump campaign to accept or deny the ticket sales
That said the interesting thing about language AIs is that they are by design able to communicate, which leads to interesting results, even though it is increasingly obvious that they don't really have any 'awareness' as such.
> Every border on Earth already reserves the right to search your personal effects as thoroughly as they please

You're correct, however this does not mean they all treat you like you should be the most thankful person of Earth for them letting you in and not harassing you endlessly.

The U.S. even requires you to hand over social media passwords in some cases and a lot of personal information before you even get on the plane.

The outright contempt for foreigners is not as common elsewhere.

P.S. And of course, you have borders like between EU countries where you barely even notice you crossed a country border, (as an EU citizen).
PWA refers to the client-side app only. They are not related.
He was working in SI units I imagine so kg rather than ton. Trillion is 10^12 so 10^15kg
Apparently it's news to many
/well this will help when running it from a docker container.
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I dunno, I was just doing this math and thinking that seems pretty awesome.

You only get $35,000 but the hardware you need is in your pocket.

Of course, you need to be cool and be good at marketing- but still!
For tests in the real world, there are always false positives and false negatives. No test is 100% perfect. The question is always how high those rates are, and thus how well you can rely on the results.
Because ZnZirconium only learned about this today → https://xkcd.com/1053/
or instead of burying the majority of it, burn it in different reactor technologies?

90% of what we are burying could be re-burned in different technology reactors. Note I didn’t say new, because the tech isn’t new. It just wasn’t prioritized because the current reactors byproducts could be used for weapons too.

And the stuff that is left over from these other reactors isn’t nearly as nasty or as long lived either, so no need for ridiculously over-engineered holes in the desert either.

The anti-nuke hysteria of the last 40 years has prevented having even remotely rational discussions about the true clean energy source out there.
There's no big issue, and there hasn't been one for many years. Ext2/3/4fs read/write support has existed for a long time for Windows, and FUSE/Dokan has a working NTFS driver with r/w support as well (also for a long time). It just doesn't work out of the box (though it does on some distributions).

Its gonna take a while till this driver is mainline in Linux kernel, and till that Linux kernel is included in distributions (especially LTS).

I haven't read The Register article, but in the past it has come to my attention they dramatize their articles, and I don't want to read such media.
Huh? CA worked with Palantir. Both Facebook and Palantir are connected via board member Peter Thiel. They are in the same boat, no competition at all.
Yes, but it need precise definition. For example, policy that goes against CCP VS. CCP members will be received massively different from Chinese people’s point of view
Anyone else find used books gross?

I wonder if it’s just a quirk/phobia of mine? Library books gross me out too.

How many page turns between butt wipes?! How many picked noses leaving through?

I never used to be bothered as a kid but this feeling has grown over the years culminating in a general ickiness.

The number one benefit of ebooks to me was that I could get old/cheap books that hadn’t, indeed, couldn't be handled by people.

it ain’t easy being weird!
Is it a false statement? Until an appeal actually overturns this, is this not the new standard?
Youtube videos are usually much longer. TikTok creators often make multiple views per day, while a youtube cadence of even 1 video per day usually requires a team.
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Looks great!
Can you add the option to not automatically convert to local amazon?
I have all my books on the US amazon and still use it rather than converting to the Australian one (which I don’t want to do).
Maybe add a chrome extension so I can click a link to the Goodreads page while I’m on the amazon page?
Again, there's no such thing as a free developer account.

Anyone with an Apple ID — which is not a developer account — can download Xcode from the App Store. However, this version of Xcode does not support prerelease versions such as iOS 14 and macOS 11, so it's not adequate for professional purposes.
That's okay as long as they store that 90GB of data in the My Documents folder. The next OS Update will delete it all for you.
Once a company gets sufficiently large it's indistinguishable from a cult.
Matching chinese rules means getting rid of free speech in America.

If I want to communicate over a communist app, I should be allowed to. It's a political statement
Another public servant forced out of a job for a blog post
This

Our trusty 2007 Honda Civic developed a cracked engine block after 11 years. I was ticked off because this was due to a manufacturing defect that made Honda extend the warranty to 10 years. While I fought with Honda to cover the cost of it, we decided to lease a Mazda 6. I've driven a 3 series before, and I was surprised how close in comfort the Mazda was. We've had the Mazda (and the fixed civic) for a while, and I have to say, I'd have a hard time justifying buying a BMW or Mercedes because the Mazda 6 is fancy enough for me (we also ended up getting a Honda Odyssey minivan and that is even fancier).

If feels like the luxury car brands have lost ground to other car manufacturers and instead of adding value they are nickel and diming their customers for features that other car-makers include at a lower cost.

I do find the only cars I lust after are either the Porsche Boxster or 911.
The biggest joy of a second hand bookstore for me is much the same as my local library.

No attention-grabbing adverts. No video walls.

It is refreshingly relaxing to be able to drop the cognitive load of "anti-advert filtering" and simply look...
They weren’t trolling. They were actively preventing people from attending. Trade “Trump” for “Biden” and see if the opinion changes. If a Russian company enabled the sabotage of a Democrat rally, would we be having this same conversation? That’s the problem with these debates, “the means justify the ends” is all that matters. It isn’t about fairness or what’s correct.

The Chinese ban Tiananmen Square stuff (and ugly people,) on TikTok, yet they allow “teens” to interfere with an American political campaign.
SO needs to find a way to accommodate “Recommendations” (for tools, libs, docs, tuts) questions/answers. They rightfully banned them early-on because they get stale, fast - but as we’re seeing now, even “good” questions for a long-standing platform like Java, Android, .NET get old before too long - it’s especially annoying when someone asked a question back in 2011-2014 about something which you couldn’t do back then but that you can do now due to recent changes in the platform (e.g. using immutable types with object-initialiser syntax in C#) so right now the “No you can’t” answer from 6 years ago gets 100+ upvotes and a helpful beginner/new/low-ranking user posts a new reply but will get ignored by SO’s algorithm unless/until a higher-ranked user comes along and gives it a boost.

SO should add a “Vote to close because: Obsolete” option - which keeps the question visible but locks new answer replies and displays a very visible and prominent banner infotmjng users it’s for an old version (with the version range displayed and helpful information to find out what version you’re using).
Don't take it all on at once, take a particular piece of it on.
In the former case all the teenagers did was send in an RSVP indicating they would attend knowing full well they would not be doing so.

In the later case foreign entities were spreading misinformation in an attempt to undermine candidates, in they hope they could change the outcome of an election.

The later was a direct attack on the election process, the former was a direct attack on the president's ego.
> Microsoft had 90% market share in the operating system market

only in the consumer market...

it is not the same argument people use right now for Apple?

"Buy Android" they say

People could buy Sun, SGI, IBM with OS/2, Macintosh computers etc. etc.

in 1993 even Amiga was a viable option

The point is that the alternative is not really an alternative if switching is expensive or straight impossible (it's very hard to switch from iOS to Android)

> It does not make sense to point to Microsoft and declare "these situations are the same" when there is a key difference in the amount of market power each company wields.

Microsoft in 1995 was ranked below place 250 in Fortune's 500 list

Apple is 3rd in 2020 and the company with the highest capitalization in the history of the stock market

I think that makes for pretty important key differences too ...
Wow that's a sobering statistic. If true it means Biden is DOA. Social media wins elections.
> False. An exception can only come from a throw statement...

Obviously.

> ...which is both lexical/statically defined and finite in number within every codebase.

Not in every case. Any time you have a library that calls into client code the set is dynamic and uncountable from the perspective of the library author.
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Zuckerberg is damaging Facebook reputation. I was approached by Facebook's recruitment team, but decided not to go ahead with it given the recent negative news around this company. I predict a slow decline for Facebook, like IBM, if Zuckerberg stays on as CEO.
Waiting for Boeing 737MAX to show up without the optional equipment.
Because all the pilots on Ethiopian Air are British middle class white people, right?
Blossom end rot is caused by calcium deficiency. Easiest solution for this is to just crush up egg shells and put them in and on top of the soil. I save my eggshells in a jar in the fridge for a few months prior to planting. It may be too late for this year but should work wonders for you in the future.
No, everyone is allowed to put their hands in their pockets.
One CEO Dealt with the TikTok Taunts of Gen Z: He Hired Them
> False. exceptions can only come from throw statements, which are both static and finite within every codebase.

Not between libraries and library customers. From the perspective of the library author, the set is dynamic and uncountable, and similarly from the perspective of the library customer, any exceptions thrown are dynamic and uncountable.

> Opinion, irrelevant.

It's almost like opinions come from some basis worth exploring instead of outright rejecting without consideration. In my (obviously irrelevant) opinion, you may grow as a person if you learn to explore the opinions of others :)