skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, founder of Resemble (https://resemble.ai) here. We're building a custom voice cloning service with APIs and controllability. Shoot me a message if you want to build a voice from raw MP3s.
If you're starting I think you should read the lean startup
FYI, arxiv is for the pre-prints, i.e. the papers as they are before peer review and publication in a proper journal. IEEE and friends hold the copyright to the articles after that, and generally do _not_ want you to publish "their" version.

Which is strange, as you paid them to publish your article, that was likely paid for by state funding -- aka tax money. Ah, the academic racket is so beautiful.
How much of the office 365 platform is truly needed for work? Developers have been avoiding it for years, it is an old bloated piece of software, that many companies stick with because it is the status quo.
Your quote prompted me to read the Minitel wikipedia entry, and apparently there was still 10 million monthly connections on it in 2009. Unfortunately it was retired in 2012; would have been interesting to see how it would fare today.
Got it, I agree with this assessment. I know you're not the OP, but I was kind of looking for what they meant by "trust" and who gets included under that umbrella.
Excel, world's most used programming tool.

Excel, also the world's favorite computer game, where you play with numbers till you get the answer your boss wants to see.
A History of Visual Programming
A little arithmetic:

6.4T USD / 128M US households = 50K USD/household

50K USD/household/ 9 years = 5.5K USD/household/yr
Is Voyager-1 still accelerating?
Furthermore, excess deaths are off the charts, which cannot be explained by these other factors all of the sudden becoming fatal: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
5G is a racket designed to replace last mile infrastructure and get the telcos away from State Utility Commission regulation in favor of more pliable federal regulatory regimes.
I believe the $6.4T doesn't include the >$1T spent domestically on security theater (TSA), NatSec tech used for low level crimes (eg: Fusion Centers) and bulk surveillance of Americans not suspected of a crime.
I woke up yesterday to a breaking news that the Trump admin announced new troop withdraws from Iraq and Afghanistan and was really encouraged.

War is one of those things I’ve gone from hawk to dove on as I’ve become older. I want a total drawdown in the entire Middle East, and I would love to see the majority of our overseas bases closed.
there is no direction of the big bang. You sitting in your chair is the exact center of the universe for your frame of reference.

all we have is the sphere of light that can reach us. That doesn't imply anything about a global universe frame
That is not correct... it is 150 AU away from earth.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
> where there is a surplus of energy due to a large aluminum smelter served by a dedicated hydroelectric plant.

This smelter is also about to shut down in August 2021. So now there's going to be a huge surplus of electricity way down south (the smelter uses ~13% of the country's total electricity!), with the big city way up north.
This is dilemma of sanctions in general.

Sanctions de-fund an entire export system. Obviously this includes both the workers as well as the higher layers of the industry. If that specific industry is misbehaving according to some standard, it can elevate voices within that industry that can see to that change.

It only works if the change desired is less costly that business profits lost (to the decision makers). Hopefully someone is doing that calculation in DC. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't because they simply find a different buyer, and other times it's not even meant to work - it's just a virtue signal and hand out to domestic producers.
We already have an open console market. It's called the PC market. Consoles are nothing but closed PCs.

Did opening up destroy the PC market? No. But opening up another console market probably would destroy it; there's no reason to separate a hypothetical new PC market from the old PC market. So if you have a PC market and a PS4 market, and then you open the PS4, you have a PC market and another PC market, and then you just have the PC market.
Agreed, TIOBE is meaningless.

But C++ usage really is growing faster than ever, judging by the number of C++ conferences that had been scheduled in 2020, and the monotonically increasing number of attendees at the far-flung, tri-ennial ISO C++ Standard conferences.

But TIOBE is not a reliable measure; when it's right, it is as accidental as the stopped clock that is right twice a day.
So I was thinking about it, and we do ask people what they want to see out of the next year, so maybe that's it! It's more of a general, vague, "what should we focus on working on" than it is actual revisions of the language though.
That is incorrect. It's approximately at 150 AU[0]. For reference, that's about three times the distance of Pluto at aphelion. 547 AU is about 11 times the distance of Pluto at perihelion.

[0] - https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
I've found a reputable local shop that I trust. In addition to a lot of new stuff, they sell used gear (possibly on consignment?), which means they've got some experts who'll do valuation on it. They have a largely professional clientele and a reputation to uphold, so I think they're trustworthy.

I'm sure I could take a lens to them and have it checked out for a few bucks, or have them broker a sale between me and another private party. Knowing what I'm getting has its own value, and I'm not opposed to paying someone for their time and expertise.

tl;dr: I don't, personally, know that. I trust someone else to know that.
You can get past this with more averages. So the real issue is that it is very slow to get high resolution at low field strengths. The flip side of this is that high field strength scanners get a lot more image artefacts than low strength systems.
A society can set the standard of "responsible disclosure" that is done to serve the "right to know" to the public. A jury of peers can judge if the two conditions above are met.

[It should be also noted that the fact that state craft requires secrets is not a carte blanche to the state to commit illegal acts.]

Nuclear launch codes can remain secret. It is difficult to see how the disclosure could possibly be both "respnsible" and "in the public interest".

Disclosing that certain government agencies are running projects like "MK-Ultra" [1], "Mockingbird" [2], "Artichoke" [3] is in the public interest.

(You know, one of the characters in one of John le Carré's Smiley books once said: "A nation's secret services are the true reflection of its soul"...)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

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

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_ARTICHOKE
My lungs were pretty irritated today though
Yes, you can buy or sell any US exchange-listed security on LTSE starting today. If you check the market share tracker at CBOE you can see the "notional dollar value" of the shares which have transacted on the platform today: https://markets.cboe.com/us/equities/market_share/

It's clearly not zero, so somebody sees some benefit in it. So I don't see the issue with saying that we are "open for business"
Covid-19 vaccine trial participant had serious neurological symptoms
That serves no purpose. If Google can’t veto any signature requests, it’s no different than having no signature at all; You’ll just have signed malware.
I wonder what the price is for the chain of

Electricity -> Hydrogen by electrolysis -> Hydrogen at pressure -> Electricity by fuel cell

even if the input electricity is almost free, everything hydrogen seems very expensive.
You can't sue someone unless you can prove damages. There's no way to fight this without breaking the rule first. I'm not a lawyer though so maybe there's an exception to this rule.
Selfie Capture When We Smile – My Fun Project Using OpenCV
Higher frequency means more energy per photon. You seem to be referring to power not energy.

You see it reported all over as energy because that is the correct term for what is being discussed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_energy
Seems like you're presuming too much strategic thinking on the part of our political leadership.
Frequency and energy are directly related, the way this is communicated makes sense. Microwaves have a shorter wavelength, higher frequency and are therefore more energetic than the other light mentioned. You're going back and forth between energy and power which aren't the same thing.
> ... /r/haskell is a pretty toxic wasteland. The responses to this very article on /r/haskell are a great place to find what I'm talking about at a general level.

If anyone wants to read through that thread to see exactly how toxic /r/haskell is they can find it here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/io3c11/essay_found...
That same person boasts about an increased pentagon budget. Where does he think that money goes?

It doesn’t seem like either leading candidate has taken a position on the military-industrial complex.
It seems much of it got dumped into TSLA.

Didn’t the fed announce they would run inflation a bit hot for a while just last week?
The industry has made no secret of the fact that they need new features so they can sell new devices and that's all its for.
That makes sense. The site currently uses USDA's open nutritional database, but it could be supplemented. They do a good job of covering for 95% of American foods, but definitely lacks globally. The nice perks about the USDA dataset is that it is more detailed than MFP - many phytonutrients (carotenoids) and omegas are also tracked. Hopefully I can add those in the next version.
Makes sense but there are many other phone OS vendors it was just weirdly specific to bring up android, but Apple people defend the Apple tax all day on HN, specifically for their curated walled garden, which this is a direct result. This is what people intentionally pay for. (Which I also dont agree with)
So why do we need it?
How many trillions of dollars has the USA saved on oil costs by keeping the middle east in a constant state of turmoil, though?

https://www.cfr.org/timeline/oil-dependence-and-us-foreign-p...
That's exactly what they're fighting. Surely Epic winning will mean a court order to reinstate Fortnite and other of Epic's games onto the App Store.

They should have sued and never have done their "pay direct" thing if they wanted to stay operational on Apple platforms during the lawsuit. Apple couldn't retaliate at that point since any termination attempt would be reversed by a court order.
Too nested, good time to end it anyways...

Pretty sure you have not read either the article this HN post is about, nor the previous days article from the same writer, nor the interview with the UN special rapporteur who investigated this..

So keep selectively cherry picking individual small points that you think make your case and dont adjust the blinkers that are obscuring the big picture.

Isnt the uk great, arent we the best, dont those eton boys really know whats best after all. God bless the queen and wot not.

When the boot stamps on my neck i am sure i will deserve it sir.
True enough, but MRI is not inherently too slow for this use. If the economics otherwise made sense, an acceptably fast throughput stroke protocol MR is quite doable.
Is the $6.4T peer reviewed? How did they derive this amount of money? Is there an itemized breakdown?
I guess it's not clear cut if this comes down to whether or not vertical integration is beneficial to consumers in this case.

The courts aren't going to decide this case based on who is fighting for "the little guy" but whether the anti-competitive actions taken by Apple constitute a violation of civil or corporate law.

> I'm honestly surprised so many HN readers are siding with Epic

I'm not. If my only use case for an Apple device was to develop commercial software for Apple devices then I'd rather quit my job, go get a law degree and join Epic's legal team for no salary just to stick it to Apple.

But I am a consumer that owns apple devices and I derive value from their model of the universe and don't see how Epic's alternative universe where they charge a lower fee with a different mechanism would improve anything, either as a developer or user.

There are much more concrete things they could argue in court are harmful to consumers, like the fact that supporting MacOS and iOS targets costs enormous amounts of money compared to Windows and Linux due to the lack of (TOS compliant) solutions for targeting and testing for Apple's operating systems. But that wouldn't give Epic a win scenario that would allow them to bypass parental controls for microtransactions in a children's game.
This needs more upvotes. I agree that our fire management hasn't been great, but there is more to it than that. Climate change is driving both more fuel and deeper droughts, and making better conditions for bark beetles. There isn't a single answer to this.
I agree. One of the problems that arises, however, is that wars get passed down from administration to administration, and once that happens, nobody wants to be the one to pull out and have that on their legacy.

It happened in Vietnam, and it's happening today in the Middle East. In both cases, the government knew early on that "total victory" was not possible, yet administrations kept pressing on. As long as leaders fear the political fallout of such major decisions, they will act in their best interest, even if it costs thousands of young lives.
Fun fact: you can connect more than 2 systems in FC without a switch. Just hop along from one TX to the next RX and build a ring. (It's called FC-AL, "Arbitrated Loop".) Works with fibre if you break the duplex cables apart to make simplex connections.

Obviously the entire thing fails if any node is powered off or has any kind of problem, but it's quite funny to do ;)
I said right in my comment there are exceptions, and inevitably the exceptions are the outlier-success companies.

Both companies you mentioned have had particular conditions that allowed them to be long-term focused. For Amazon it was that they achieved huge growth and cash flow from very early in their history and so Bezos has been able to call the shots. For Tesla it was that Musk was already rich and could spend several years investing his own money before needing outside investment. (And by the way, just look at the crap Musk has to deal with from a major segment of the investor community as he seeks to pursue a bold long term vision; and he’s one of the greatest force-of-personality founders ever).

These conditions don’t apply to unproven founders relying wholly on outside investment, working on opportunities that may not yield rapid growth and cash flow in the short/medium-term.
Yes, this refers only to waging war on foreigners. Waging war on Americans has its own budget.
My partner's sister could've potentially been saved if this existed already. They could've moved the MRI to her instead of needing to move her to the MRI, which couldn't be done. It's difficult seeing technology that could help save someone's life come out after its too late. I hope this becomes widely available and it saves lives.
"Selective logging" usually means removing the big, healthy, valuable trees and not the brush and dead wood that provide the fuel, but are not worth the effort to clear financially. It's expensive to do it well.
Exactly. We don't see OA as the problem. OA solves many issues that exist with traditional publishing and also makes it easier to preserve content in the first place. The problem lies with decreasing library budgets, rising subscription prices, and that preservation services often are not suitable for smaller OA journals.

LOCKSS provides a free option for publishers to join, but only accepts a limited number of OA publishers (https://www.lockss.org/use-lockss/publishers). A couple years ago the PKP launched their preservation service, which we're really excited about as it also offers free preservation (for OJS journals) and would help esp. those smaller journals that otherwise couldn't afford to enroll into preservation schemes.
Pulumi Announces the Industry's First Cloud Engineering Summit
An optimizing compiler could easily detect that a bunch of closures share an upvalue block in an enclosing "constructor" and then instead make that block explicit, and rewrite an entire constructor in a way that doesn't involve multiple closures at all (given that escape analysis and lang rules allow that). E.g.:

// optimized
function constructor(...) {
let this = {...}
function method(this, ...) {...}
return function (name, ...) {
switch (name) {
case 'method': return method(this, ...)
// or return a temp closure
// like it does in tfa

constructor()('method', 42)

And vice versa, on a computer that does closures in hardware better than objects for some unrealistic reason.

That's why both are just abstractions, whose semantics may better fit one or another implementation, but it really doesn't matter for maths.
I'm not saying Xbox does allow that kind of content. Just that "we're an app that runs arbitrary other apps and the discretion for what is available and the rules they follow is ours instead of Apple's despite the fact that to the user they might as well be running locally on the phone."
I was hoping someone would write down a list of companies or startups doing wireless transmission better! Would be great!
I assumed the title referred to a dev team that deals with data, not a dev team led by using data. Why not use the title from the article, "How to run a data-driven dev team without being a performance tyrant"?
Tesla Model Y Owners Find Cooling System Made with Home Depot-Grade Fake Wood
> This assumes a little too much about how automatic differentiation would work.

The use of 'would' implies that automatic differentiation has not been established. Also, if something is 40+ years old, then it follows that its foundation is even older.
Do you realize the extent of humankind jingoism you're espousing here? There are other inhabitants of this planet, and I, for one, think they deserve equal footing, which they certainly do not have now. To put it more succinctly: Just because we can doesn't mean we should. Blindly plowing through our natural resources and dashing headlong towards ecological catastrophe all while wishing upon a star that maybe one of these millions of people we're pumping out will save us all is an astoundingly reckless, thoughtless way to proceed.

> We owe the coming generations one last push to glory.

This is not a Marvel movie. If our oceans turn acidic, if our glaciers melt, it's going to take a lot more than a magical South African to turn back time.
The US backed the jihadists (mujahidden) against the secular Saur government in the 1970s and 1980s, so that blew back from that too. Along with the US military opening foreign bases in the Arabian dictatorship a decade before 9/11 (military bases closed two years after 9/11).
It'd be nice to be able to blur the lines. Maybe implement multireturn by declaring variables public inside your closure scope.

function Person(firstName, lastName) {
let fName = firstName;
let lName = lastName;

public getFullName = function() {
return fName + ' ' + lName;
};

public setFirstName = function(firstName) {
fName = firstName;
};

return this;
}

("return this" is probably not the best syntax at the end there, especially if bolting this onto javascript.)
Surprised no one has mentioned weboob. If your interest isn't specifically along the lines of "go to all pages, and get all of the data" and more along the lines of "go to my bank, log in using username and password, get the transactions" etc, weboob is ideal. It seems to be extremely well thought out and easily extendable.it has plugins for a whole bunch of websites already, including many, many banks, some of the biggest websites such as reddit, Google, and many more. The only downside I've had so far is that it will fall flat on it's arse if the website has to load must do javascripty things (it can handle APIs and html easily though).
Transphobia in 3, 2....ah, here it is.
From the point of view of economics I suspect this is akin to a stimulus package because, again I suspect, that the bulk of that sum of money goes to American contractors and American personel.
How so?

If you feed 1 watt of power into a 10Mhz isotropic antenna you get a photons of a certain energy spreading out in all directions. If you feed 1 watt of 10Ghz into a isotropic antenna, are you saying that the photons have more energy than the 10Mhz version? Where does the extra energy come from?

I'll admit it's been way to long since physics class, so forgive me.
> It's a real stretch to look at what happened with Hey and think that they took on Apple and won.

Hey got what they wanted, as did Apple. This is the way.

It's amusing that people think Epic is doing this for the good of anyone other than themselves.
> because its better for the eyes (for coding)

e-ink is great for static content, but just wondering if the high latency be a little bothersome for dynamic content like a code text window? I usually jump around a lot when I code and have to keep an eye on the debug/output window which refreshes a lot. I feel like a rock-solid image (high refresh rate LED monitor) and smooth motion would be less tiring to the eyes.
Sweet! I would switch to this right away, if I hadn't already discovered MailMate.
> As of June 2020 the Fed owned over ⅕ of all US government debt and over ⅓ of longer-dated US government bonds.

That's one-fifth, and one-third, respectively for anyone else having a hard time reading it.
>1664 employees

What do they do? I am curious on the breakdown of engineering versus everybody else. I am always reminded of Craigslist, which operates with a skeleton crew. In 2017, it was reported they had 50 people on revenue of almost $700 million.
It's kind of interesting to think about growth profiles over time. To grow over some long term span, like say 10 or 20 years, did the growth all take place in the last 90% of the interval or evenly throughout. I guess the premise of a company growing throughout all the short intervals across a long span of time is a good way to know at least something will be there down the road that's not too far off the mark from where you'd like to be with your investments. I'm trying to think of the reconciliation of short term vision with any wisdom contained therein with respect to long term gains.
Interestingly, if they are all* converted to ppm, only iii and ix are the same. Only part of the difference is comments. There are also differences in value encodings.

Also, if converted to bmp, only ii and vi are the same.

Edit: Converted to xpm, all are different. (When the embedded filenames are reconciled, ii and vi are again the same, the rest differ.)

*Except v.gif, which is invalid.
No. If you are looking for a POSIX-ish shell with modern features, Oil (http://www.oilshell.org/) is your best option.